puksa

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• pocsa, pucsa — obsolete, Spanish-based spelling

Etymology

Possibly a back-formation from muksa, reinterpreted as a now archaic apheretic form of the infinitive pumuksa, ultimately borrowed from Sanskrit मोक्ष (mokṣa, “emancipate”). Compare Javanese ꦩꦸꦏ꧀ꦱ (muksa, “to vanish”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /pukˈsaʔ/ [pʊkˈsaʔ]
• Rhymes: -aʔ
• Syllabification: puk‧sa

Noun

puksâ (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜃ᜔ᜐ)

1. act of annihilation; extermination

   Synonyms: ubos, lipol, dipol, abolisyon

Derived terms

• mapuksa
• muksa
• pagpuksa
• puksain
• pumuksa

See also

• masaker
• pawi
• simot

Further reading

• “puksa”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018.
• Potet, Jean-Paul G. (2016), Tagalog Borrowings and Cognates, Lulu Press, →ISBN, page 293

Anagrams

• kupas, pusak