lakas
Latvian
Tagalog
Alternative forms
- lacas — obsolete, Spanish-based orthography
Etymology
Borrowed from Malay lekas (“speed”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ləkas (“quick, quickly”). Compare Kapampangan lakas (“strength”).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /laˈkas/ [lɐˈxas]
- Rhymes: -as
- Syllabification: la‧kas
Noun
lakás (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜃᜐ᜔)
- strength; vigor
- Synonym: puwersa
- power; might
- Synonyms: kapangyarihan, poder
- loudness; volume (of sound)
- Synonyms: tunog, katunugan
- efficacy; effectiveness
- healthiness (of one's body)
- highness of temperature (of fever)
- intensity of one's illness
- daringness; fearlessness (of one's will or spirit)
- Synonyms: lakas ng loob, tapang, kapangahasan
- influence
- Synonyms: impluwensiya, impluho
- heaviness of rain
- strength of sales
- Synonyms: kabilihan, pagkamabili
- velocity; speed (of a running vehicle)
Derived terms
- daanin sa lakas
- di-kalakas-lakasan
- ilakas
- kalakasan
- lakas ng loob
- lakas-lalaki
- lakas-loob
- lakasan
- lumakas
- madlakasan
- maglakas-lakasan
- maglakas-loob
- magpalakas
- magpalakas ng loob
- makapagpalakas
- malakas
- malakas ang loob
- napakalakas
- pagkamalakas
- paglakas
- pagpapalakas
- palakas
- palakas-tunog
- palakasan
- palakasin
- palakasin ang loob
- pampalakas
- ubos-lakas
- walang-lakas
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