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Tagalog
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish avance (“advance; progress”), deverbal from avanzar, from Catalan avançar, from Vulgar Latin *abanteāre, from Late Latin ab ante.
Pronunciation
Noun
abanse (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜊᜈ᜔ᜐᜒ)
- advance; moving forward
- Synonym: sulong
- promotion (in one's job, etc.)
- Synonym: asenso
- progress
- Synonyms: asenso, pag-unlad, progreso, adelanto
- (colloquial) act of stealing something
- (colloquial) something stolen or taken surreptitiously
Derived terms
Adjective
abanse (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜊᜈ᜔ᜐᜒ)
- (colloquial) stolen; taken surreptitiously
- Synonyms: umit, nakaw
Further reading
- “abanse”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018