abanse

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish avance (“advance; progress”), deverbal from avanzar, from Catalan avançar, from Vulgar Latin *abanteāre, from Late Latin ab ante.

Pronunciation
  • (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ʔaˈbanse/ [ʔɐˈban.sɛ]
  • Rhymes: -anse
  • Syllabification: a‧ban‧se

Noun

abanse (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜊᜈ᜔ᜐᜒ)

  1. advance; moving forward
    Synonym: sulong
  2. promotion (in one's job, etc.)
    Synonym: asenso
  3. progress
    Synonyms: asenso, pag-unlad, progreso, adelanto
  4. (colloquial) act of stealing something
  5. (colloquial) something stolen or taken surreptitiously

Derived terms
  • abansehan
  • abansehin
  • iabanse
  • umabanse

Adjective

abanse (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜊᜈ᜔ᜐᜒ)

  1. (colloquial) stolen; taken surreptitiously
    Synonyms: umit, nakaw

Further reading
  • “abanse”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
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