alpas

Borrowed from Kapampangan alpas (“free”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ləpas (“to set free, let loose, liberated; passed by, come to an end”). Doublet of lapas and lipas.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ʔalˈpas/ [ʔɐlˈpas]
• Rhymes: -as
• Syllabification: al‧pas

alpás (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜎ᜔ᜉᜐ᜔)

1. act or state of being released from grasp, binding or confinement

   Synonyms: hulagpos, kalag, kawala, laya

• “alpas”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2024
• “alpas”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Noceda, Fr. Juan José de, Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves‎^[1] (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier
• San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero‎^[2], La Noble Villa de Pila
  • page 558: “Soltar) Alpas (pc) T. alque eſta preso”
  • page 563: “Suelto) Alpas (pc) T. dela carçel”
• Zorc, David Paul (1979–1983) Core Etymological Dictionary of Filipino: Part 1, page 11
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*lepas”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

• plasa, lapas, salap, lasap