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Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Philippine *dapu (“to perch, of birds”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdapoʔ/
- Hyphenation: da‧po
Verb
dapò (plural darapo, Basahan spelling ᜇᜉᜓ)
- to perch
- Synonym: tugdon
Derived terms
Tagalog
Etymology
From Proto-Philippine *dapu (“be attracted to, swarm around, as ants do on finding food”).
Pronunciation
Noun
dapò (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜉᜓ)
- perching; alighting (of a bird)
- Synonyms: hapon, paghapon
- (figurative) orchid
- Synonyms: orkidya, orkid
- (figurative) parasite
- Synonym: parasito
- (biology, medicine) contraction of a disease
- Synonym: hawa
- (colloquial) person related to the family by marriage
Derived terms
Further reading
- “dapo” at KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2021
- “dapo”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*dapu”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI
- Zorc, David Paul (1982) Core Etymological Dictionary of Filipino: Part 3, page 115
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