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Esperanto
Noun
lamon
- accusative singular of lamo
Mansaka
Verb
lamon
- to swallow
Tagalog
Etymology
From Proto-Philippine *lamun (“eat voraciously, gulp down, swallow whole”).
Pronunciation
Noun
lamon (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜋᜓᜈ᜔)
- voracious eating; gluttonous eating; gorging; devouring
- Synonyms: sabsab, pagsabsab
- (figurative) consumption by fire
- Synonyms: tupok, pagtupok, pagkatupok
- (figurative) engulfing by big waves
- Synonyms: lulon, paglulon, sakmal, pagsakmal
Derived terms
Further reading
- “lamon”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*lamun₂”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI
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