astakona
Tagalog
Alternative forms
- astacona — obsolete, Spanish-based orthography
- astakuna
Etymology
Ultimately from Sanskrit अष्टकोण (aṣṭakoṇa, “octagon”). Compare Malay astakona / setakona (“octagon”) and Old Javanese aṣṭaguṇa (“eight qualities of a king”).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ʔastaˈkona/ [ʔɐs.tɐˈxo.nɐ]
- Rhymes: -ona
- Syllabification: as‧ta‧ko‧na
See also
Further reading
- “astakona”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- Noceda, Fr. Juan José de, Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier
- San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero, La Noble Villa de Pila, page 56: “Anillo) Aſtacona (pp) de oro o plata y tiene piedra”
- Potet, Jean-Paul G. (2016) Tagalog Borrowings and Cognates, Lulu Press, →ISBN, page 52
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