losyang
Tagalog
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Possibly from either:
- From Hokkien 老相 (lāu-siàng, “looking older than one's actual age”, literally “old appearance”), attested in the Dictionario Hispanico Sinicum (1626-1642).[1]
- From English lost young (literally “lost one's youth”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈlosjaŋ/ [ˈloː.ʃɐŋ]
- Rhymes: -osjaŋ
- Syllabification: los‧yang
Adjective
[edit]losyang (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜓᜐ᜔ᜌᜅ᜔) (slang)
- unkempt; shabby; untidy in appearance
- (by extension) haggard
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Dictionario Hispánico-Sinicum[1] (overall work in Early Modern Spanish, Hokkien, and Classical Mandarin), kept as Vocabulario Español-Chino con caracteres chinos (TOMO 215) in the University of Santo Tomás Archives, Manila: Dominican Order of Preachers, 1626-1642; republished as Lee, Fabio Yuchung (李毓中), Chen, Tsung-jen (陳宗仁), José, Regalado Trota, Caño, José Luis Ortigosa, editors, Hokkien Spanish Historical Document Series I: Dictionario Hispanico Sinicum[2], Hsinchu: National Tsing Hua University Press, 2018, →ISBN
Further reading
[edit]- “losyang”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2024
- Zorc, R. David, San Miguel, Rachel (1993) Tagalog Slang Dictionary[3], Manila: De La Salle University Press, →ISBN
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- Tagalog terms borrowed from Hokkien
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- Tagalog 2-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Tagalog/osjaŋ
- Rhymes:Tagalog/osjaŋ/2 syllables
- Tagalog terms with malumay pronunciation
- Tagalog lemmas
- Tagalog adjectives
- Tagalog terms with Baybayin script
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