gayuma
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Kapampangan[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Compare Tagalog gayuma. See also Cebuano gugma (“love”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
gayúma
- (folklore, magic) love potion
- Synonym: guna
- (obsolete) poisonous herb applied on weapons, like the spear or lance
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Tagalog[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Southern Luzon axis *gayúma (“love-charm”). Compare Kapampangan gayuma. See also Cebuano gugma (“love”). The sense of “magnet” is coined in the 1960s as an allusion to the effect of the magical potion.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
gayuma (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜌᜓᜋ)
- charming quality
- Synonyms: panghalina, pang-akit, (dialectal) lumay
- (folklore, magic) love charm; philter (charm or potion to cause a person to fall in love)
- (obsolete) magnet
- Synonym: batubalani
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Further reading[edit]
- “gayuma” at KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino[1], Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2021
- “gayuma”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- Panganiban, José Villa (1973) Diksyunaryo-Tesauro Pilipino-Ingles, Quezon City: Manlapaz Publishing Co., page 438
- Serrano-Laktaw, Pedro (1914) Diccionario tagálog-hispano, Ateneo de Manila, page 262.
- Noceda, Fr. Juan José de, Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves[2] (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier
- Santos, Fr. Domingo de los (1835) Tomas Oliva, editor, Vocabulario de la lengua tagala: primera, y segunda parte.[3] (in Spanish), La imprenta nueva de D. Jose Maria Dayot
- San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero[4], La Noble Villa de Pila
- page 347: “Hechiçar) Gayoma (pp) alos enamorados deçierta manera”
- page 347: “Hechiço) Gayoma (pp) ꝑa ẽamorados”
- Zorc, David Paul (1982) Core Etymological Dictionary of Filipino: Part 3, page 136