upas

See also: upás

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay upas.

Noun

upas (usually uncountable, plural upases)

1. (usually countable) A tree, Antiaris toxicaria, of the mulberry family, common in the forests of Java and the neighboring islands, with poisonous secretions.
   • 1818, Thomas Love Peacock, chapter 11, in Nightmare Abbey, Hookham, published 1818:

     [I]t is an all-blasting upas, whose root is earth, and whose leaves are the skies which rain their poison-dews upon mankind.

2. (uncountable) A virulent poison used in Java and the adjacent islands for poisoning arrows derived from the tree.
3. (uncountable) A poison prepared from the climbing plant Strychnos tieute.

Synonyms

• (Antiaris toxicaria): bohun upas
• (poison from Antiaris toxicaria):
• (poison from Strychnos tieute): upas tieute

Translations

tree

• Bulgarian: анча́р m (ančár)
• Malay: pokok upas
• Portuguese: antiar m
• Russian: анча́р (ru) m (ančár), упа́с m (upás)
• Vietnamese: sui (vi), thuốc bắn

poison from Antiaris toxicaria

• Malay: upas (ms)
• Portuguese: antiar m

poison from Strychnos tieute

• Malay: upas (ms)

Anagrams

• UAPs, AUPs, Apsu, sapu, Puas, SPUA, puas, USAP, PUAs, Apus, pa'us, APUs, paus

Bikol Central

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʔupas/, [ˈʔu.pas]
• Hyphenation: u‧pas

Noun

úpas (Basahan spelling ᜂᜉᜐ᜔)

1. core of a banana trunk

See also

• baduya
• barani
• batag
• bulig
• bungoran
• butohan
• gibing
• puso
• saba

 

Cebuano

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: u‧pas
• IPA^(key): /ˈʔupas/, [ˈʔu.pɐs̪]

Noun

úpas

1. core of a banana trunk

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: u‧pas
• IPA^(key): /ʔuˈpas/, [ʔʊˈpas̪]

Verb

upás

1. to lose flavor

Malay

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *upas.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /upas/
• Rhymes: -upas, -pas, -as

Noun

upas (Jawi spelling اوڤس, plural upas-upas, informal 1st possessive upasku, 2nd possessive upasmu, 3rd possessive upasnya)

1. upas (poison from Antiaris toxicaria)
2. upas (poison from Strychnos tieute)

Synonyms

• ipuh / ipoh

Derived terms

• pokok upas

Descendants

• Indonesian: upas
• → English: upas
• → Russian: упас (upas)

Further reading

• “upas” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Portuguese

Verb

upas

1. second-person singular present indicative of upar

Spanish

Verb

upas

1. second-person singular present indicative of upar

Tagalog

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog)
  • IPA^(key): /ˈʔupas/ [ˈʔu.pɐs] (“act of removing leaves”, noun)
    • Rhymes: -upas
  • IPA^(key): /ʔuˈpas/ [ʔʊˈpas] (“devoid of leaves”, adjective; “condition of being devoid of leaves”, noun)
    • Rhymes: -as
• Syllabification: u‧pas

Noun

upas (Baybayin spelling ᜂᜉᜐ᜔)

1. act of removing leaves from plants (especially of sugarcane)

   Synonym: pag-upas

Derived terms

• pag-upas
• upasan

 

Adjective

upás (Baybayin spelling ᜂᜉᜐ᜔)

1. removed; devoid of leaves (of a plant)

Noun

upás (Baybayin spelling ᜂᜉᜐ᜔)

1. condition of being removed of all leaves (of a plant)

Anagrams

• usap

Ternate

Etymology

Ultimately from Dutch oppas, possibly through Indonesian.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈu.pas]

Noun

upas

1. an attendant of the sultan

References

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh