pusukan

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• pisukan

Etymology

From (Western) Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *patiukan (“kind of honeybee”). Compare Pangasinan potiokan, Kapampangan pukiutan / putiukan, Asi pudyukan, Romblomanon putyūkan, Bikol Central putyokan, Cebuano putyukan, Western Bukidnon Manobo petiyukan, Tausug pussukan, Sangil patiukang, Sangir katiupang, Mongondow pasukan, and Central Dusun potiukan. Doublet of pukyutan.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /pusuˈkan/ [pʊ.sʊˈxan̪]
• Rhymes: -an
• Syllabification: pu‧su‧kan

Noun

pusukán (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜐᜓᜃᜈ᜔) (dialectal, Quezon)

1. wild pugnacious honey bee

See also

• balibag
• bubuyog
• laywan
• ligwan
• pukyutan
• sag-uli
• uwidan

Further reading

• Manuel, E. Arsenio (1971) A Lexicographic Study of Tayabas Tagalog of Quezon Province, Quezon City: Diliman Review, page 298
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*patiukan”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI