asapran

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish azafrán, from Arabic اَلزَّعْفَرَان‎ (az-zaʕfarān, “the saffron”) via Andalusian Arabic, from Middle Iranian.

Pronunciation
  • Hyphenation: a‧sap‧ran
  • IPA(key): /ʔasapˈɾan/, [ʔɐ.sɐpˈɾan]

Noun

asaprán (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜐᜉ᜔ᜇᜈ᜔)

  1. saffron

Further reading
  • “asapran”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
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