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sapak

Pronunciation: /saˈpak/

“sapak” is a Tagalog word. Its 11 meanings in English:

noun

  1. slap; splitting downward blow using the hand
  2. clacking sound produced when chewing
  3. large and wide leaves used as roofing
  4. part of a tree where a branch has broken off
  5. breaking of a tree branch (from the main trunk)
  6. act of stretching open the mouth (to dislocate the jaws)
  7. act of splitting something lengthwise, especially by the grain

adjective

  1. broken off (of a branch, especially at the fork)
  2. sunk to the full length
  3. very beautiful
  4. very good; excellent

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *sapak (“crack, split, or sound of a crack of split”). Compare Central Bikol sapak.

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