pulumasi

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• polomase — obsolete, Spanish-based orthography
• polomasi — obsolete, Spanish-based orthography
• pulumase

Etymology

Borrowed from Early Modern Spanish plumaje. Doublet of plumahe.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /puluˈmasi/ [pʊ.lʊˈmaː.sɪ]
• Rhymes: -asi
• Syllabification: pu‧lu‧ma‧si

Noun

pulumasi (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜎᜓᜋᜐᜒ) (obsolete)

1. plumage (decorative feathers for a hat or headdress)

   Synonym: plumahe

Derived terms

• magpulumasi
• pulumasihin

 

Related terms

• puluma

 

References

• San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero‎^[1], La Noble Villa de Pila, page 485: “Plumaje) [Polomaſi] (pp) C. que traen ya [en los] ſombreros”
• Potet, Jean-Paul G. (2016) Tagalog Borrowings and Cognates, Lulu Press, →ISBN, page 323