sayad

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• sayar — dialectal, Batangas, Rizal, informal

Etymology

Borrowed from Kapampangan sayad (“run aground like a boat”), from Proto-Philippine *saʀyad (“to drag as a boat scraping bottom”). Compare Ilocano sagayad / sagirad / saringgayad, Pangasinan sagar, Bikol Central sagyad, Aklanon sagyad, Cebuano sangyad, Hiligaynon sangyad, and Western Bukidnon Manobo sagyad. Doublet of sagyat and sanggayad.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog)
  • IPA^(key): /ˈsajad/ [ˈsaː.jɐd] (noun)
    • Rhymes: -ajad
  • IPA^(key): /saˈjad/ [sɐˈjad], /ˈsajad/ [ˈsaː.jɐd] (adjective)
    • Rhymes: -ad, -ajad
• Syllabification: sa‧yad

Noun

sayad (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜌᜇ᜔)

1. part of something that touches the surface of another
2. (by extension) bottom of a skirt, sled, or slip that drags

   Synonyms: sagayad, kola

3. running aground, as of a boat or ship

   Synonym: sadsad

4. (figurative) brokeness; pennilessness
5. (figurative) mental retardation

Derived terms

• isayad
• magsayad}pasayarin
• mapasayad
• masayad
• masayaran
• may sayad
• pagkakasayad
• pagsayad
• pagsayad
• sayaran
• sumayad

 

See also

• gayad
• sadsad
• sagayad
• sanglad

 

Adjective

sayád or sayad (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜌᜇ᜔)

1. with the bottom (or side, or top) touching or being dragged along a surface

   Synonyms: lapat, nakalapat, diit, nakadiit, dait, nakadait

2. aground

   Synonym: nakasadsad

3. (figurative) broke; penniless

   Synonyms: walang-wala, bangkarote

Further reading

• “sayad”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Noceda, Fr. Juan José de, Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves‎^[1] (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier
• San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero‎^[2], La Noble Villa de Pila
  • page 74: “ARaſtrar) Sayar (pp) la ropa larga o otra coſa”
  • page 215: “Dar) Sayar (pp) el nauio en ſeco”
  • page 579: “Topar) Sayar (pp) el nauio en ſeco”