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Cebuano
Etymology
First attested in Antonio Pigafetta's Relazione del primo viaggio intorno al mondo—detailing the first circumnavigation of the world between 1519 and 1522.
From Sanskrit लशुन (laśuna, “garlic, onion”).
Pronunciation
Noun
lasuna
- (obsolete) garlic
- Synonym: ahos
Dupaningan Agta
Etymology
Ultimately from Sanskrit लशुन (laśuna)
Noun
lasuna
- onion
Finnish
Noun
lasuna
- essive singular of lasu
Anagrams
Kapampangan
Etymology
Borrowed from Sanskrit लशुन (laśuna, “garlic, onion”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ləˈsunə/
- Hyphenation: la‧su‧na
Noun
lasúna
- onion
- Synonyms: sibuyas, sang
Tagalog
Etymology
Ultimately from Sanskrit लशुन (laśuna, “garlic, onion”), since displaced by the Spanish borrowing sibuyas. Compare Ilocano lasona, Kapampangan lasuna, Cebuano lasuna, and Malay dasun.
Pronunciation
Noun
lasunâ (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜐᜓᜈ) (botany, obsolete)
- onion; shallot
- Synonyms: sibuyas, sibuyas-tagalog, tanduyong, (Cavite) tsang
Derived terms
Further reading
- “lasuna”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- Serrano-Laktaw, Pedro (1914) Diccionario tagálog-hispano, Ateneo de Manila, page 555.
- 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 609: “Zebolla) Laſona (pc) yerua conoçida”