gising

English

Verb

gising

1. present participle and gerund of gise

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• guising — obsolete, Spanish-based spelling

Etymology

Compare Kapampangan gising (“awakening”), Bikol Central gisong (“waking up”), Cebuano gisong (“shake into consciousness”), and Tausug gisung (“to wake up for a short time”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog)
  • IPA^(key): /ɡiˈsiŋ/ [ɡɪˈsɪŋ] (adjective)
    • Rhymes: -iŋ
  • IPA^(key): /ˈɡisiŋ/ [ˈɡiː.sɪŋ] (noun)
    • Rhymes: -isiŋ
• Syllabification: gi‧sing

Adjective

gisíng (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜒᜐᜒᜅ᜔)

1. awake; awakened

   Gising na ang tatay mo.

   Your father is awake.

2. alert; active

   Synonyms: alerto, listo

3. (figurative) well-informed

   Synonym: mulat

Noun

gising (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜒᜐᜒᜅ᜔)

1. waking up from sleep

   Synonyms: paggising, pagkagising, pagpukaw

2. time when one wakes up
3. act of waking someone up from sleep

Derived terms

• gising-gising
• gising-tandang
• gisingin
• gisnan
• gumising
• kagisnan
• kinagisnan
• magising
• magisnan
• manggising
• paggising
• pagkagising

See also

• alimpungat
• bangon
• gisaw
• pukaw

Further reading

• “gising”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018.
• San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613), Vocabulario de lengua tagala. El romance castellano puesto primero. Primera, y segunda parte.‎ (overall work in Early Modern Spanish and Classical Tagalog), as directed by Gov. Gen. Juan de Silva, Pila, Laguna: La noble Villa de Pila, por Tomás Pinpin y Domingo Loag.
  • page 245: “Deſpertar) Giſing [(pp) el dormido]”
  • page 518: “Recordar) Giſing (pp) el que eſta durmiendo”

Anagrams

• singgi, siging