kuwasya
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Tagalog[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Spanish cuasia, from New Latin Quassia, named after Graman Quassi, a former slave from Suriname in the eighteenth century.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /kuˈasja/, [ˈkwa.ʃɐ]
- Rhymes: -asja
- Syllabification: ku‧was‧ya
Noun[edit]
kuwasya (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜓᜏᜐ᜔ᜌ) (botany)
- quassia; bitterwood (Quassia amara)
- Synonym: korales
Further reading[edit]
- “kuwasya”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
Categories:
- Tagalog terms borrowed from Spanish
- Tagalog terms derived from Spanish
- Tagalog terms derived from New Latin
- Tagalog 3-syllable words
- Tagalog terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Tagalog/asja
- Rhymes:Tagalog/asja/3 syllables
- Tagalog terms with malumay pronunciation
- Tagalog lemmas
- Tagalog nouns
- Tagalog terms with Baybayin script
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