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Cebuano
Pronunciation
Noun
purol
- shorts; pants worn primarily in the warm weather that do not go lower than the knees
- boxers; a pair of boxer shorts
Verb
purol
- to put on shorts
- to wear pants
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:purol.
Tagalog
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pudul (“blunt, dull”).
Pronunciation
Noun
puról (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜇᜓᜎ᜔)
- bluntness; dullness (of blades or of the intellect)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “purol”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*pudul”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI