pagpuasa : Binisaya - Cebuano to English Dictionary and Thesaurus.

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Word:

Word - rootword - affixes
pagpuasa - puasa - pag-~
pag.pu.a.sa. - 4 syllables

pag- = pagpuasa
pagpuasa

pagpuasa [pag.pu.á.sa.] :	abstaining (n.); fasting (n.)
puasa [pu.á.sa.] :	fast (v.)

Derivatives of puasa

Glosses:

abstain
v. (social)	1. abstain	refrain from voting.
	~ refrain, forbear	resist doing something.; "He refrained from hitting him back"; "she could not forbear weeping"
v. (consumption)	2. abstain, desist, refrain	choose not to consume.; "I abstain from alcohol"
	~ fast	abstain from eating.; "Before the medical exam, you must fast"
	~ fast	abstain from certain foods, as for religious or medical reasons.; "Catholics sometimes fast during Lent"
	~ keep off, avoid	refrain from certain foods or beverages.; "I keep off drugs"; "During Ramadan, Muslims avoid tobacco during the day"
	~ teetotal	practice teetotalism and abstain from the consumption of alcoholic beverages.
fasting
n. (act)	1. fast, fasting	abstaining from food.
	~ abstinence	act or practice of refraining from indulging an appetite.
	~ dieting, diet	the act of restricting your food intake (or your intake of particular foods).
	~ hunger strike	a voluntary fast undertaken as a means of protest.
	~ ramadan	(Islam) a fast (held from sunrise to sunset) that is carried out during the Islamic month of Ramadan.