kuwasya
Tagalog
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Spanish cuasia, from New Latin Quassia, named after Graman Quassi, a former slave from Suriname in the eighteenth century.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /kuˈasja/ [ˈkwaː.ʃɐ]
- Rhymes: -asja
- Syllabification: ku‧was‧ya
Noun
[edit]kuwasya (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜓᜏᜐ᜔ᜌ) (botany)
- quassia; bitterwood (Quassia amara)
- Synonym: korales
Further reading
[edit]- “kuwasya”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
Categories:
- Tagalog terms borrowed from Spanish
- Tagalog terms derived from Spanish
- Tagalog terms derived from New Latin
- Tagalog 3-syllable words
- Tagalog terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Tagalog/asja
- Rhymes:Tagalog/asja/3 syllables
- Tagalog terms with malumay pronunciation
- Tagalog lemmas
- Tagalog nouns
- Tagalog terms with Baybayin script
- tl:Sapindales order plants