upas
See also: upás
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
upas (usually uncountable, plural upases)
- (usually countable) A tree, Antiaris toxicaria, of the mulberry family, common in the forests of Java and the neighboring islands, with poisonous secretions.
- 1818, Thomas Love Peacock, chapter 11, in Nightmare Abbey, Hookham, published 1818:
- [I]t is an all-blasting upas, whose root is earth, and whose leaves are the skies which rain their poison-dews upon mankind.
- (uncountable) A virulent poison used in Java and the adjacent islands for poisoning arrows derived from the tree.
- (uncountable) A poison prepared from the climbing plant Strychnos tieute.
Synonyms edit
- (Antiaris toxicaria): bohun upas
- (poison from Antiaris toxicaria):
- (poison from Strychnos tieute): upas tieute
Translations edit
tree
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Bikol Central edit
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Noun edit
úpas (Basahan spelling ᜂᜉᜐ᜔)
See also edit
Cebuano edit
Etymology 1 edit
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Noun edit
úpas
Etymology 2 edit
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Verb edit
upás
- to lose flavor
Malay edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *upas.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
upas (Jawi spelling اوڤس, plural upas-upas, informal 1st possessive upasku, 2nd possessive upasmu, 3rd possessive upasnya)
- upas (poison from Antiaris toxicaria)
- upas (poison from Strychnos tieute)
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Further reading edit
- “upas” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
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upas
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upas
Tagalog edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Standard Tagalog)
- Syllabification: u‧pas
Noun edit
upas (Baybayin spelling ᜂᜉᜐ᜔)
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Adjective edit
upás (Baybayin spelling ᜂᜉᜐ᜔)
Noun edit
upás (Baybayin spelling ᜂᜉᜐ᜔)
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Ternate edit
Etymology edit
Ultimately from Dutch oppas, possibly through Indonesian.
Pronunciation edit
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upas
References edit
- Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh