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Tagalog
Etymology
From Proto-Philippine *nisnís (“to wipe, rub, scrub”).
Pronunciation
Noun
nisnís (Baybayin spelling ᜈᜒᜐ᜔ᜈᜒᜐ᜔)
- unravelling or wearing out of clothes
- Synonym: tastas
- (obsolete) rub someone else's face onto some surface (like the ground)
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Adjective
nisnís (Baybayin spelling ᜈᜒᜐ᜔ᜈᜒᜐ᜔)
- threadbare; worn to threads; unravelled
- Synonyms: nasnas, tastas
- (figurative, obsolete) crooked (of a nose)
- nisnis na ilong ― crooked nose
Further reading
- “nisnis”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2024
- “nisnis”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- Panganiban, José Villa (1973) Diksyunaryo-Tesauro Pilipino-Ingles (overall work in Tagalog and English), Quezon City: Manlapaz Publishing Co., page 728
- Serrano-Laktaw, Pedro (1914) Diccionario tagálog-hispano, Ateneo de Manila, page 860.
- 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 440: “Narigueta) Niſnis (pc) nariz torcida o medio comida de babas”
- Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*nisnís”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI
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