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Machura | Matsura


Here’s one of the nicest and most beautiful words in Kapampángan!


MACHÚRA / MATSÚRA • (muh-CHOO-ruh)
beautiful, good-looking
Tagálog (Filipino): pángit


Intensive Form
KACHÚRA / KATSÚRA • (kuh-CHOO-ruh)
so beautiful
Tagálog (Filipino): ang pángit, ampánget (colloquial)


Example Sentence
Katsúra mo! / Na kang katsúra! [Kap]
Ang pángit mo! [Tag]
You’re so beautiful! [Eng]


If you’ve made it this far, HAPPY APRIL FOOLS!


MACHÚRA / MATSÚRA • (muh-CHOO-ruh)
ugly
Tagálog (Filipino): pángit


Etymology
From Spanish machorra (“sterile, infertile”), with the word re-interpreted as ma- (Kapampángan adjective prefix) and chúra / súra as the root word derived through back-formation.


Intensive Form
KACHÚRA / KATSÚRA • (kuh-CHOO-ruh)
so ugly
Tagálog (Filipino): ang pángit, ampánget (colloquial)


Derived Root Word
CHÚRA / (-T)SÚRA • (CHOO-ruh / [T]SOO-ruh)
ugliness
Tagálog (Filipino): kapangítan, pángit (root word, adjective)


Opposite False Friends
Okinawan:
清ら(ちゅら, チュラ, chura)
(root) beautiful
Kapampángan: santing, lagû


Kapampángan:
CHÚRA
(root) ugly
Okinawan: やな (ヤナ, yana)


Verb Conjugation
sumúra, súsúra, sínúra – to get ugly (Actor Focus)


Example Sentence
Sínúra néng sínúra! [Kap]
Pumángit siya nang pumángit! [Tag]
S/he/It got uglier and uglier! [Eng]


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