# basahan
## Cebuano
### Pronunciation

* Hyphenation: ba‧sa‧han

### Noun

basahan
* loincloth
    Synonym: bahag

## Indonesian
### Pronunciation

* (Standard Indonesian) IPA: /baˈsahan/ [baˈsa.han]
* Rhymes: -ahan
* Syllabification: ba‧sa‧han

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Malay basahan, equivalent to basah (“wet”) +‎ -an.

#### Adjective

basahan (dialectal)
* something that is used while bathing
    kain basahan ― bath clothe or towel (wrapped around the body while bathing)
* something that is used daily
    baju basahan ― daily used shirt or dress
    bahasa basahan ― colloquial or everyday language

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Javanese ꦧꦱꦲꦤ꧀ (basahan).

#### Noun

basahan (plural basahan-basahan)
* kind of Javanese traditional long wedding dress

### Further reading

* “basahan” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Malay
### Etymology

basah (“wet”) +‎ -an

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /baˈsahan/ [baˈsa.han]

### Adjective

basahan (Jawi spelling باسهن)
* something that is used while bathing
    kain basahan ― bath cloth or towel (wrapped around the body while bathing)
* something that is used daily
    baju basahan ― daily used shirt or dress
    gelang basahan ― daily worn bracelet
    bahasa basahan ― colloquial or everyday language

#### Descendants

* Indonesian: basahan
* →? Tagalog: basahan

### Further reading

* “basahan” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

## Tagalog
### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /baˈsahan/ [bɐˈsaː.hɐn̪]
* Rhymes: -ahan
* Syllabification: ba‧sa‧han

### Etymology 1

Either from the following:
* From Malay basahan (“daily used items or clothes”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *basəq-an (“thing that gets wet”). Can also be analyzed as basah (“wet”) + -an.
* From basa (“wet”) + -han. However, the expected conjugation would be *basaan since basa ends with a glottal stop, and the root being basa (“reading”) is unlikely. Possibly an irregular conjugation.
Compare Kapampangan basan (“rag”), Maranao basa'an (“bathing suit”), Tausug basaanan (“clothing worn while one is bathing”), and Old Javanese basahan (“piece of cloth which is not taken off while bathing”).

#### Noun

basahan (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜐᜑᜈ᜔)
* cleaning rag; waste piece of cloth (used for cleaning, dusting, etc.)
    Synonyms: pamunas, trapo, estrasa

##### Derived terms

* basahanin
* basanhin
* magbasahan
* malabasahan
* mamasahan
* manyikang-basahan
* pagbabasahan

##### See also

* gulanit

### Etymology 2

From basa (“reading”) +‎ -han.

#### Verb

basahan (complete binasahan, progressive binabasahan, contemplative babasahan, Baybayin spelling ᜊᜐᜑᜈ᜔)
* to read something for someone

##### Derived terms

* basahan ng sakdal

### Further reading

* “basahan”, 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, La Noble Villa de Pila
** page 599: “Veſtido) Baſahan (pp) de cada dia que ſe pone para trabajar con el”
** page 600: “Viejo) Baſahan (pp) vestido”