alasan

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Cebuano

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: a‧la‧san

Noun

alasan

  1. a reddish-brown horse; a chestnut
  2. the color chestnut

Adjective

alasan

  1. of the colour chestnut

Galician

Verb

alasan

  1. third-person plural present indicative of alasar

Indonesian

Etymology

Reconstructed as alas (“base”) +‎ -an, from Malay alasan, from Classical Malay السن (alasan), from Javanese ꦲꦭꦱꦤ꧀ (alasan, “reason, excuse”), from Old Javanese aleśyan (“on the pretext of”), leśya, liśya (“excuse, pretext”), from Prakrit *lissa, *līsa, *lēssa (“defective”), from Sanskrit लेश (leśa, “figure of speech”), लिश् (liś, “move, go”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈalasan/
  • Hyphenation: alas‧an
  • Rhymes: -an, -n

Noun

alasan (plural alasan-alasan)

  1. proof
  2. argument
  3. reason
  4. excuse

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