puwing

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• poing, poying — obsolete, Spanish-based spelling
• puling
• puying

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *puliŋ (“foreign object in the eye”) with elision of /l/. Compare Ilocano puling, Kapampangan puling, Bikol Central puling, Cebuano puling, Maranao poling, and Tausug puling.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /puˈiŋ/ [ˈpwɪŋ]
  • Rhymes: -iŋ
• (now dialectal, Southern Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈpuiŋ/ [ˈpuː.ɪŋ]
  • Rhymes: -uiŋ
• Syllabification: pu‧wing

Noun

puwíng (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜏᜒᜅ᜔)

1. foreign body, usually dust, in the eye
2. contradiction, denial, or repudiation of someone's statement, thereby causing confusion

Derived terms

• ikapuwing
• mapuwing
• puwingin

See also

• muta

See also

• “puwing”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018.
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*puling₂”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI