taksil

• tacsil — obsolete, Spanish-based spelling

Borrowed from Malay taksir (“neglect”), from Arabic تَقْصِير (taqṣīr).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /takˈsil/ [t̪ɐkˈsɪl]
• Rhymes: -il
• Syllabification: tak‧sil

taksíl (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜃ᜔ᜐᜒᜎ᜔)

1. traitor

   Synonyms: traydor, lilo, sukab, hudas, ahas, ulupong, anay, sulupika, kuhila, (slang) galema

2. (obsolete) idiot; fool

taksíl (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜃ᜔ᜐᜒᜎ᜔)

1. treacherous; traitorous

   Synonyms: lilo, palamara, sukab, mapagkanulo, suwail

2. (obsolete) idiotic; foolish

• “taksil”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2024
• “taksil”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Potet, Jean-Paul G. (2013) Arabic and Persian Loanwords in Tagalog, Lulu Press, →ISBN, page 159
• Wolff, John U. (1976) “Malay borrowings in Tagalog”, in C.D. Cowan & O.W. Wolters, editors, Southeast Asian History and Historiography: Essays Presented to D. G. E. Hall‎^[1], Ithaca: Cornell University Press, page 358

• talsik, saltik, saklit