aksaya

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit क्षय (kṣayá, decay, corossion).[1][2]

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ʔaksaˈja/ [ʔɐk.sɐˈja]
  • Rhymes: -a
  • Syllabification: ak‧sa‧ya

Noun

aksayá (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜃ᜔ᜐᜌ)

  1. waste; wastefulness; squandering

Derived terms

Adjective

aksayá (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜃ᜔ᜐᜌ)

  1. wasteful; extravagant
    Synonym: maaksaya
  2. wasted

References

  1. Potet, Jean-Paul G. (2016) Tagalog Borrowings and Cognates, Lulu Press, →ISBN, page 273
  2. Trinidad Hermenegildo Pardo de Tavera (1887) El sanscrito en la lengua tagalog (in Spanish), Paris: Imprimerie de la Faculté de Médecine, A. Davy, page 15

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