upas

Borrowed from Malay upas.

upas (usually uncountable, plural upases)

1. (usually countable) A tree, Antiaris toxicaria, of the mulberry family, common in the forests of Java and the neighboring islands, with poisonous secretions.
   • 1818, Thomas Love Peacock, chapter 11, in Nightmare Abbey, Hookham, published 1818:

     [I]t is an all-blasting upas, whose root is earth, and whose leaves are the skies which rain their poison-dews upon mankind.

2. (uncountable) A virulent poison used in Java and the adjacent islands for poisoning arrows derived from the tree.
3. (uncountable) A poison prepared from the climbing plant Strychnos tieute.

• (Antiaris toxicaria): bohun upas
• (poison from Antiaris toxicaria):
• (poison from Strychnos tieute): upas tieute

• UAPs, AUPs, Apsu, sapu, Puas, SPUA, puas, USAP, PUAs, Apus, pa'us, APUs, paus

• IPA^(key): /ˈʔupas/ [ˈʔu.pas]
• Hyphenation: u‧pas

úpas (Basahan spelling ᜂᜉᜐ᜔)

1. core of a banana trunk

• Hyphenation: u‧pas
• IPA^(key): /ˈʔupas/ [ˈʔu.pɐs̪]

úpas

1. core of a banana trunk

• Hyphenation: u‧pas
• IPA^(key): /ʔuˈpas/ [ʔʊˈpas̪]

upás

1. to lose flavor

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *upas.

• IPA^(key): /ˈupas/ [ˈu.pas]
• Rhymes: -upas
• Hyphenation: u‧pas

upas (Jawi spelling اوڤس, plural upas-upas)

1. upas (poison from Antiaris toxicaria)
2. upas (poison from Strychnos tieute)

• ipuh / ipoh

• pokok upas

• Indonesian: upas
• → English: upas
• → Russian: упас (upas)

• “upas” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

upas

1. second-person singular present indicative of upar

upas

1. second-person singular present indicative of upar

• (Standard Tagalog)
  • IPA^(key): /ˈʔupas/ [ˈʔuː.pɐs] (“act of removing leaves”, noun)
    • Rhymes: -upas
  • IPA^(key): /ʔuˈpas/ [ʔʊˈpas] (“devoid of leaves”, adjective; “condition of being devoid of leaves”, noun)
    • Rhymes: -as
• Syllabification: u‧pas

upas (Baybayin spelling ᜂᜉᜐ᜔)

1. act of removing leaves from plants (especially of sugarcane)

   Synonym: pag-upas

upás (Baybayin spelling ᜂᜉᜐ᜔)

1. removed; devoid of leaves (of a plant)

upás (Baybayin spelling ᜂᜉᜐ᜔)

1. condition of being removed of all leaves (of a plant)

• puas, usap, pusa

Ultimately from Dutch oppas, possibly through Indonesian.

• IPA^(key): [ˈu.pas]

upas

1. an attendant of the sultan

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh