luksa
Esperanto
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈluksa/
- Rhymes: -uksa
- Hyphenation: luk‧sa
Adjective
luksa (accusative singular luksan, plural luksaj, accusative plural luksajn)
Tagalog
Alternative forms
- locsa — obsolete, Spanish-based spelling
Etymology
Borrowed from Sanskrit रूक्ष (rūkṣa, “dry; emaciated”).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /lukˈsaʔ/ [lʊkˈsaʔ]
- Rhymes: -aʔ
- Syllabification: luk‧sa
Adjective
luksâ (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜓᜃ᜔ᜐ)
- in mourning clothes (usually black)
- Synonyms: nakaluksa, nakaluto
- mourning; grieving (over death of someone)
Derived terms
- babang-luksa
- damit-panluksa
- ipagluksa
- luksang luksa
- luksang-lamayan
- luksang-parangal
- magbaba ng luksa
- magluksa
- nakaluksa
- pagluluksa
- panluksa
Noun
luksâ (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜓᜃ᜔ᜐ)
- mourning
- Synonym: pagluluksa
- period of mourning
- Synonym: pagluluksa
- mourning clothes (usually black)
- Synonym: damit-panluksa
References
- “luksa”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- Potet, Jean-Paul G. (2016) Tagalog Borrowings and Cognates, Lulu Press, →ISBN, page 288