undas
Latin
Tagalog
Alternative forms
- onras – obsolete, Abecedario orthography
- undras, ondras
- Undas
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish honras (“honors”) (spelled before as honrras) or variant ondras, plural of honra (“honor; respect”), corrupted by d-r allophony. In Spanish pronunciation, ⟨h⟩ is silent. Ultimately from Latin honōrāre. Compare honras fúnebres (“funeral honors”).
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: un‧das
- IPA(key): /ʔunˈdas/, [ʔʊnˈdas]
Noun
undás (Baybayin spelling ᜂᜈ᜔ᜇᜐ᜔)
- (Christianity) All Saints' Day; November 1st (with associations of visiting family's graves)
- Synonyms: Todos Los Santos, Araw ng mga Patay, Undas ng mga Patay, Araw ng mga Santo
Derived terms
- mag-undas
- magpaundas
- pag-undasan
Related terms
See also
- Araw ng mga Kaluluwa
Further reading
- “undas”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2018
- Fr. Pedro de San Buena Ventura (1613), Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero, La Noble Villa de Pila, page 356: “Honrras) Onras [(pc)] C. por los difuntos”
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