dahak

See also: daħak

Indonesian

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *dahak. Cognate of Tagalog dahak.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈd̪ahak]
• Hyphenation: da‧hak

Noun

dahak (first-person possessive dahakku, second-person possessive dahakmu, third-person possessive dahaknya)

1. sputum, phlegm

   Synonyms: balgam, sputum

Alternative forms

• kahak; kahak (Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore)

Derived terms

• berdahak
• mendahak

 

Further reading

• “dahak” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• rahak — dialectal, Rizal, informal

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *dahak. Compare Malay dahak.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /daˈhak/ [d̪ɐˈhak̚]
• Rhymes: -ak
• Syllabification: da‧hak

Noun

dahák (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜑᜃ᜔)

1. physical effort to gather phlegm in the throat in order to expectorate
2. (by extension) sound made by such an effort

Derived terms

• dahakan
• dumahak
• idahak
• pagdahak

 

Further reading

• “dahak”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*dahak”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI