puwit

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• pouit, poyet, poyit, puit — obsolete, Spanish-based spelling
• puwet — colloquial
• puyit, puyet — obsolete
• pwit, pwet — superseded, pre-2007

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *puət. Compare Maranao powit and Malay amput.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /puˈwit/ [ˈpwɪt̪̚], (colloquial) /puˈwet/ [ˈpwɛt̪̚]
• Rhymes: -it
• Syllabification: pu‧wit

Noun

puwít (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜏᜒᜆ᜔)

1. buttocks; butt; rear

   Synonyms: pigi, (western Marinduque) sasapnan

   Sa puwit ko, nagkakape.

   In my butt, drinking coffee.

2. (figurative) bottom part of any container
3. (nautical) bottom of a vessel

Derived terms

• basang-puwit
• kakampuwet
• puwitan

See also

• huli
• likod

Further reading

• “puwit”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018
• San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613), Vocabulario de lengua tagala. El Romance castellano puesto primero. Primera, y segunda parte. [Vocabulary of the Tagalog language. Castilian Romance placed first. First, and second parts.]‎^[1] (overall work in Early Modern Spanish and Classical Tagalog), as directed by Gov. Gen. Juan de Silva, Pila, Laguna: La noble Villa de Pila, por Tomás Pinpin y Domingo Loag. [The noble Villa of Pila, led by Tomás Pinpin and Domingo Loag.], →OCLC
  • page 83: “Aſiento) Poyit (pc) o el ſuelo de qual quier vaſija”
  • page 208: “Culo) Poyit (pc) todas las aſentaderas con ojete y todo, y aſi llaman atodo jenero de ſuelo”
  • page 509: “Rabo) Poyit (pc) ſobre q̃nos ſentamos”
  • page 557: “Solar) Poyit (pc) çesto arca &c.”
  • page 562: “Suelo) Poyit (pc) de çesto cantaro olla arca eſcriuania petaca. &c.”
  • page 584: “Traſero) Puyit (pc) del hombre”