undas

undās

1. accusative plural of unda

• ondas, onras — obsolete, Spanish-based orthography
• undras, ondras
• unras — dialectal, Rizal, informal

Borrowed from Spanish honras (“honors”), earlier spelled as honrras, or variant ondras, plural of honra (“honor; respect”), corrupted by /d/~/r/ allophony. In Spanish pronunciation, ⟨h⟩ is silent. Ultimately from Latin honōrāre. Compare honras fúnebres (“funeral honors”).

• IPA^(key): /ʔunˈdas/, [ʔʊnˈdas]
• Hyphenation: un‧das

undás (Baybayin spelling ᜂᜈ᜔ᜇᜐ᜔) (Christianity)

1. All Saints' Day; November 1st (with associations of visiting family's graves)

   Synonyms: Araw ng mga Banal, Todos los Santos, Araw ng mga Santo, Araw ng mga Patay

• Araw ng mga Kaluluwa

• “undas”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Santos, Fr. Domingo de los (1835) Tomas Oliva, editor, Vocabulario de la lengua tagala: primera, y segunda parte.‎ (in Spanish), La imprenta nueva de D. Jose Maria Dayot
• San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero‎, La Noble Villa de Pila, page 356: “Honrras) Onras [(pc)] C. por los difuntos”