gising
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English[edit]
Verb[edit]
gising
- present participle and gerund of gise
Tagalog[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Compare Kapampangan gising (“awakening”), Bikol Central gisong (“waking up”), Cebuano gisong (“shake into consciousness”), and Tausug gisung (“to wake up for a short time”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
gisíng (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜒᜐᜒᜅ᜔)
- awake; awakened
- Gising na ang tatay mo.
- Your father is awake.
- alert; active
- (figurative) well-informed
- Synonym: mulat
Noun[edit]
gising (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜒᜐᜒᜅ᜔)
- waking up from sleep
- Synonyms: paggising, pagkagising, pagpukaw
- time when one wakes up
- act of waking someone up from sleep
Derived terms[edit]
See also[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “gising”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero[1], La Noble Villa de Pila
- page 245: “Deſpertar) Giſing [(pp) el dormido]”
- page 518: “Recordar) Giſing (pp) el que eſta durmiendo”