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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