pusa
Bahasa Tagalog
[sunting]Takrifan
[sunting]Kata nama
[sunting]pusà
- kucing
- (kiasan) pengkhianat
- Sinonim: manloloko
Etimologi
[sunting]Banding dengan Isnag kusa, Kankanaey posa, Kapampangan pusa, Ilocano pusa, Ibatan pusak, Malayalam പൂച്ച (pūcca), Tetum busa, Melayu Sarawak pusak dan Malagasy fosa; semua asalnya merujuk kepada Mustela nudipes.[1]
Sebutan
[sunting]Rujukan
[sunting]- ↑ Blench, Roger; Walsh, Martin (2011), “Faunal names in Malagasy: their etymologies and implications for the prehistory of the East African coast”, dalam 11th International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics, Aussois, France, halaman 1–31