babaysot

Tagalog

Alternative forms

  • babayisot — obsolete

Etymology

Possibly from blend of babayi (“female”) +‎ bansot (“stunted”).

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /babajˈsot/ [bɐ.baɪ̯ˈsot̪̚], /baˈbajsot/ [bɐˈbaɪ̯.sot̪̚]
  • Rhymes: -ot, -ajsot
  • Syllabification: ba‧bay‧sot

Noun

babaysót or babaysot (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜊᜌ᜔ᜐᜓᜆ᜔) (dialectal, Cavite, Batangas, mildly derogatory)

  1. female; girl
    Synonym: babae
    Coordinate term: lalaksot
    Sinabi ng mga matatanda na ayaw nilang gab-i na'y naghihikap pa ang mga babaysot.
    The old people said they did not like that the girls were still strolling when already nighttime.
  2. (obsolete) stupid promiscuous woman; drab

Usage notes

  • Used by older people to call females younger than them but sometimes applied to any female in general regardless of age.

See also

Further reading

  • “babaysot”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
  • Panganiban, José Villa (1973) Diksyunaryo-Tesauro Pilipino-Ingles (overall work in Tagalog and English), Quezon City: Manlapaz Publishing Co., page 88
  • Serrano-Laktaw, Pedro (1914) Diccionario tagálog-hispano, Ateneo de Manila, page 66.
  • Baroja, Felipe Mayor (2012) Diksyunaryong Batangueño‎[1] (in Tagalog), Batangas, Philippines: Veritas Printing Press, Inc., page 32
  • Noceda, Fr. Juan José de, Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves‎[2] (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier
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