purol

Cebuano

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: pu‧rol

Noun

purol

  1. shorts; pants worn primarily in the warm weather that do not go lower than the knees
  2. boxers; a pair of boxer shorts

Verb

purol

  1. to put on shorts
  2. to wear pants

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:purol.

Tagalog

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pudul (“blunt, dull”).

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /puˈɾol/ [pʊˈɾol]
  • Rhymes: -ol
  • Syllabification: pu‧rol

Noun

puról (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜇᜓᜎ᜔)

  1. bluntness; dullness (of blades or of the intellect)

Derived terms

  • kapurulan
  • magpapurol
  • mapurol
  • mapurol ang ulo
  • papurulin
  • pumurol
  • purulin

Further reading

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