puko

Cebuano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: pu‧ko

Noun

puko

1. yaws (contagious tropical disease)
2. a woven basket with a tapering mouth

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• poco — obsolete, Spanish-based orthography

Etymology

According to Fr. Domingo de los Santos (1835), from po (respect particle) +‎ ko (“my; mine”) but the glottal stop is left unexplained.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /puˈkoʔ/ [pʊˈxoʔ]
• Rhymes: -oʔ
• Syllabification: pu‧ko

Particle

pukô (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜃᜓ)

1. (dialectal, Laguna, Quezon, emphatic) marks respect toward the person the speaker is addressing: ma'am; sir

   Synonyms: po, (familiar) ho

2. (women's speech, obsolete) marks respect toward the person the speaker is addressing

Usage notes

• Old dictionaries indicate that puko was used by women before while po was used by men.

Related terms

• po
• pupo

 

Further reading

• Panganiban, José Villa (1973) Diksyunaryo-Tesauro Pilipino-Ingles (overall work in Tagalog and English), Quezon City: Manlapaz Publishing Co., page 823
• Serrano-Laktaw, Pedro (1914) Diccionario tagálog-hispano, Ateneo de Manila, page 1084.
• 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
• Santos, Fr. Domingo de los (1835) Tomas Oliva, editor, Vocabulario de la lengua tagala: primera, y segunda parte.‎ (in Spanish), La imprenta nueva de D. Jose Maria Dayot