lasa

Borrowed from Malay rasa, from Sanskrit रस (rasa).

• Hyphenation: la‧sa
• IPA^(key): /ˈlasa/

lása

1. taste, flavor

   Synonyms: namit, tana

From Proto-Central-Pacific *lasa, from Proto-Oceanic *lasa (compare Maori rata).

lasa

1. tame
2. easy

lasa

1. feminine singular of laso

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Related to Northern Sami lassá.

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lasa

1. doorpost

• lasa in Marja-Liisa Olthuis, Taarna Valtonen, Miina Seurujärvi and Trond Trosterud (2015–2022) Nettidigisäänih Anarâškiela-suomakielâ-anarâškielâ sänikirje‎, Tromsø: UiT

• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎, Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

• IPA^(key): /ˈl̪ˠasˠə/

lasa

1. present subjunctive analytic of las

From Proto-Bantu *-dáca.

lasa

1. to abandon
2. to lose

lasa

1. third-person singular/plural present indicative of lasīt
2. (with the particle lai) third-person singular imperative of lasīt
3. (with the particle lai) third-person plural imperative of lasīt

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *daʀaq, from Proto-Austronesian *daʀaq.

lasa

1. blood

• IPA^(key): /ˈlasa/
• Rhymes: -asa
• Syllabification: la‧sa

lasa f

1. feminine singular of laso

Borrowed from Malay rasa (compare Bikol Central lasa), from Sanskrit रस (rasa). Compare Khmer រស (rŭəh) and Burmese ရသ (ra.sa.).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈlasa/
• Rhymes: -asa
• Syllabification: la‧sa

lasa (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜐ)

1. taste; flavor; savor

   Synonyms: namnam, linamnam, lasap

   Masarap ang lasa ng lugaw.

   The taste of the rice gruel is good.

2. liking

   Synonyms: gusto, kagustuhan, pagkakagusto

   Pwede na ba sa lasa mo ang ginawa ko?

   Can what I did belong to your liking?

3. (Batangas) condition; feeling; state of the body

   Synonyms: pakiramdam, kalagayan, (Batangas) pakilasa

   Masama ang lasa ng guro kaya umuwi na.

   The teacher's condition isn't well so went home already.

4. (Batangas) opinion; thought

   Synonyms: palagay, opinyon

   Lasa ko'y pagod ka na.

   My thought is you are tired.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈlasaʔ/
• Rhymes: -asaʔ
• Syllabification: la‧sa

lasà (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜐ)

1. tiger grass
2. silvering compound used to manufacture mirrors

• tambo

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lasaq (“beat, thrash”). Compare Aklanon easa, Maranao lasa' and Malay lasah.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /laˈsaʔ/
• Rhymes: -aʔ
• Syllabification: la‧sa

lasâ (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜐ)

1. destroyed (with parts detached or forced off)

   Synonyms: lansag, bingkag, tungkab, giba, buwag

• Potet, Jean-Paul G. (2016) Tagalog Borrowings and Cognates, Lulu Press, →ISBN, page 116
• Trinidad Hermenegildo Pardo de Tavera (1887) El sanscrito en la lengua tagalog‎ (in Spanish), Paris: Imprimerie de la Faculté de Médecine, A. Davy, page 35
• 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

• “lasa” at KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino‎, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2021
• “lasa”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*lasaq”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

• asal

From Malay rasa, from Sanskrit रस (rasa).

lasa

1. flavor