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Tagalog
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ampias (“wind-driven rain”). Compare Tausug tampiyas, Iban empias, and Malay tempias.
Pronunciation
Noun
ampiyás or ampiyas (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜋ᜔ᜉᜒᜌᜐ᜔)
- rain entering through open or cracked windows, walls, doors etc.
- Synonyms: anggi, tampiyas
- (figurative, obsolete) taking anger out on someone encountered
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Further reading
- “ampiyas” at KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2021
- “ampiyas”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- Noceda, Fr. Juan José de, Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier
- 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 400: “Llouizna) Ampias (pp) quemete el viento de bajo de tejado”
- page 428: “Mojarſe) Ampias (pp) con la lluuia que mete de bajo de tejado”
- Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*ampias”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI
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