puksa

Tagalog

Alternative forms

Etymology

Possibly a back-formation from muksa, reinterpreted as a now archaic apheretic form of the infinitive pumuksa, ultimately borrowed from Sanskrit मोक्ष (mokṣa, “emancipate”). Compare Javanese ꦩꦸꦏ꧀ꦱ (muksa, “to vanish”).

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /pukˈsaʔ/ [pʊkˈsaʔ]
  • Rhymes: -aʔ
  • Syllabification: puk‧sa

Noun

puksâ (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜃ᜔ᜐ)

  1. act of annihilation; extermination
    Synonyms: ubos, lipol, dipol, abolisyon

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See also

Further reading

  • “puksa”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
  • Potet, Jean-Paul G. (2016) Tagalog Borrowings and Cognates, Lulu Press, →ISBN, page 293

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