pukol

Tagalog

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pukul (“hit with a stick”). Compare Asi pukoy, Bikol Central pukol, Aklanon pukoe, and Malay pukul.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /puˈkol/ [pʊˈxol]
• Rhymes: -ol
• Syllabification: pu‧kol

Noun

pukól (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜃᜓᜎ᜔)

1. toss; throw; hurl

   Synonym: hagis

2. act of hitting something or someone with one end of a object

Usage notes

• Usually used with unexpected objects. Some examples would be a stone, a wooden or metal rod, a gun, the tip of a shovel or spear, or the peen of a hammer. Unlike pukpok or tira, this is enough to brutally harm or even kill a person in a single blow and break something significantly or even completely.

Derived terms

• ipukol
• magpukol
• mapukol
• pagpupukol
• pukulin
• pumukol

Further reading

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