alasan

• Hyphenation: a‧la‧san

alasan

1. a reddish-brown horse; a chestnut
2. the color chestnut

alasan

1. of the colour chestnut

alasan

1. third-person plural present indicative of alasar

Reconstructed as alas (“base”) +‎ -an, from Malay alasan, from Classical Malay السن (alasan), from Javanese ꦲꦭꦱꦤ꧀ (alasan, “reason, excuse”), from Old Javanese aleśyan (“on the pretext of”), leśya, liśya (“excuse, pretext”), from Prakrit *lissa, *līsa, *lēssa (“defective”), from Sanskrit लेश (leśa, “figure of speech”), लिश् (liś, “move, go”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈalasan/
• Hyphenation: alas‧an
• Rhymes: -an, -n

alasan (plural alasan-alasan)

1. proof
2. argument
3. reason
4. excuse

• “alasan” 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.

Borrowed from Spanish alazán, from Arabic أَصْهَب (ʔaṣhab, “reddish, reddish-brown”) via Andalusian Arabic.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ʔalaˈsan/ [ʔɐ.lɐˈsan̪]
• Rhymes: -an
• Syllabification: a‧la‧san

alasán (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜎᜐᜈ᜔)

1. sorrel

alasán (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜎᜐᜈ᜔)

1. sorrel
2. sorrel-colored horse

• “alasan”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2024
• “alasan”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018