puksa
Tagalog
Alternative forms
- pocsa, pucsa – obsolete, Abecedario orthography
Etymology
Possible back-formation from mamuksa, ultimately borrowed from Sanskrit मोक्ष (mokṣa, “emancipate”). Compare Javanese ꦩꦸꦏ꧀ꦱ (muksa, “to vanish”).
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: puk‧sa
- IPA(key): /pukˈsaʔ/, [pʊkˈsaʔ]
Derived terms
- mapuksa
- muksa
- nuksa
- pagpuksa
- puksain
- pumuksa
Further reading
- “puksa”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2018
- Potet, Jean-Paul G. (2016) Tagalog Borrowings and Cognates, Lulu Press, →ISBN, page 293
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