upas

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English[edit]

 upas on Wikipedia

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Malay upas.

Noun[edit]

upas (usually uncountable, plural upases)

  1. (usually countable) A tree, Antiaris toxicaria, of the mulberry family, common in the forests of Java and the neighboring islands, with poisonous secretions.
    • 1818, Thomas Love Peacock, chapter 11, in Nightmare Abbey, Hookham, published 1818:
      [I]t is an all-blasting upas, whose root is earth, and whose leaves are the skies which rain their poison-dews upon mankind.
  2. (uncountable) A virulent poison used in Java and the adjacent islands for poisoning arrows derived from the tree.
  3. (uncountable) A poison prepared from the climbing plant Strychnos tieute.

Synonyms[edit]

  • (Antiaris toxicaria): bohun upas
  • (poison from Antiaris toxicaria):
  • (poison from Strychnos tieute): upas tieute

Translations[edit]

Anagrams[edit]

Bikol Central[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈʔupas/, [ˈʔu.pas]
  • Hyphenation: u‧pas

Noun[edit]

úpas (Basahan spelling ᜂᜉᜐ᜔)

  1. core of a banana trunk

See also[edit]

Cebuano[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • Hyphenation: u‧pas
  • IPA(key): /ˈʔupas/, [ˈʔu.pʌs̪]

Noun[edit]

úpas

  1. core of a banana trunk

Etymology 2[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • Hyphenation: u‧pas
  • IPA(key): /ʔuˈpas/, [ʔʊˈpas̪]

Verb[edit]

upás

  1. to lose flavor

Malay[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *upas.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

upas (Jawi spelling اوڤس, plural upas-upas, informal 1st possessive upasku, 2nd possessive upasmu, 3rd possessive upasnya)

  1. upas (poison from Antiaris toxicaria)
  2. upas (poison from Strychnos tieute)

Synonyms[edit]

Derived terms[edit]

Descendants[edit]

  • Indonesian: upas
  • English: upas
  • Russian: упас (upas)

Further reading[edit]

Portuguese[edit]

Verb[edit]

upas

  1. second-person singular present indicative of upar

Spanish[edit]

Verb[edit]

upas

  1. second-person singular present indicative of upar

Tagalog[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • Hyphenation: u‧pas
  • IPA(key): /ˈʔupas/, [ˈʔu.pɐs] (noun: act)
  • IPA(key): /ʔuˈpas/, [ʔʊˈpas] (adjective, noun: condition)

Noun[edit]

upas (Baybayin spelling ᜂᜉᜐ᜔)

  1. act of removing leaves from plants (especially of sugarcane)
    Synonym: pag-upas

Derived terms[edit]

Adjective[edit]

upás (Baybayin spelling ᜂᜉᜐ᜔)

  1. removed; devoid of leaves (of a plant)

Noun[edit]

upás (Baybayin spelling ᜂᜉᜐ᜔)

  1. condition of being removed of all leaves (of a plant)

Anagrams[edit]

Ternate[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Ultimately from Dutch oppas, possibly through Indonesian.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

upas

  1. an attendant of the sultan

References[edit]

  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh