pasan

See also: pas-an and paṣan

English

Etymology

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Noun

pasan (plural pasans)

1. (archaic) The gemsbok.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “pasan”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• APAns, NASPA, Panas, Sapan, apans, napas, paans, sapan

Bikol Central

Alternative forms

• pas-an

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pasaqan (“carry on the shoulders”), from Proto-Austronesian *pasaqaN (“shoulder pole; carry with a shoulder pole”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paʔˈsan/, [paʔˈsan̪]
• Hyphenation: pa‧san

Noun

pàsan (Basahan spelling ᜉᜐᜈ᜔)

1. shoulder pole
2. act of carrying on one's shoulder

   Synonym: sungay

Derived terms

• magpasan
• pasanon

 

Galician

Verb

pasan

1. third-person plural present indicative of pasar

Spanish

Verb

pasan

1. third-person plural present indicative of pasar

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• pas-an — now dialectal, Batangas, Quezon, Marinduque

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pasaqan (“carry on the shoulders”), from Proto-Austronesian *pasaqaN (“shoulder pole; carry with a shoulder pole”). Compare Batad Ifugao pahon, Kapampangan pusan, Bikol Central pasan, Tagbanwa pasa'an, Cebuano pas-an, Mongondow potaanon, Tetun Dili hasan, and Thao pataqaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paˈsan/, [pɐˈsan]
• Hyphenation: pa‧san

Noun

pasán (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜐᜈ᜔)

1. act of carrying on one's shoulders
2. thing carried on one's shoulders

Derived terms

• ipasan
• magpasan
• pagpasan
• pasanan
• pasanin
• pasang-krus
• pinasan
• pumasan
• tagapasan

 

See also

• baba
• balikat
• bitbit
• buhat
• dala
• kilik
• kipkip
• pangko
• pingga
• sunong