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Yes. The word upas is a Scrabble US word. The word upas is worth 6 points in Scrabble:

U1P3A1S1

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4-letter words (1 found)

UPAS,

3-letter words (8 found)

ASP,PAS,PUS,SAP,SAU,SPA,SUP,UPS,

2-letter words (4 found)

AS,PA,UP,US,

You can make 13 words from upas according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of upas

upas puas uaps aups paus apus upsa pusa uspa supa psua spua uasp ausp usap suap asup saup pasu apsu psau spau aspu sapu

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word upas. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in upas.

Definitions and meaning of upas

upas

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay upas.

Noun

upas (usually uncountable, plural upases)

  1. (usually countable) A tree, Antiaris toxicaria, of the mulberry family, common in the forests of Java and the neighboring islands, with poisonous secretions.
  2. (uncountable) A virulent poison used in Java and the adjacent islands for poisoning arrows derived from the tree.
  3. (uncountable) A poison prepared from the climbing plant Strychnos tieute.

Synonyms

  • (Antiaris toxicaria): bohun upas
  • (poison from Antiaris toxicaria):
  • (poison from Strychnos tieute): upas tieute

Translations

Anagrams

  • APUs, AUPs, Apsu, Apus, PUAs, SPUA, UAPs, paus, puas

Bikol Central

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʔupas/, [ˈʔu.pas]
  • Hyphenation: u‧pas

Noun

úpas (Basahan spelling ᜂᜉᜐ᜔)

  1. core of a banana trunk

See also

Cebuano

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: u‧pas
  • IPA(key): /ˈʔupas/, [ˈʔu.pʌs̪]

Noun

úpas

  1. core of a banana trunk

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: u‧pas
  • IPA(key): /ʔuˈpas/, [ʔʊˈpas̪]

Verb

upás

  1. to lose flavor

Malay

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *upas.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /upas/
  • Rhymes: -upas, -pas, -as

Noun

upas (Jawi spelling اوڤس, plural upas-upas, informal 1st possessive upasku, 2nd possessive upasmu, 3rd possessive upasnya)

  1. upas (poison from Antiaris toxicaria)
  2. upas (poison from Strychnos tieute)

Synonyms

  • ipuh / ipoh

Derived terms

  • pokok upas

Descendants

  • Indonesian: upas
  • → English: upas
  • → Russian: упас (upas)

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Verb

upas

  1. second-person singular present indicative of upar

Spanish

Verb

upas

  1. second-person singular present indicative of upar

Tagalog

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Tagalog)
    • IPA(key): /ˈʔupas/ [ˈʔu.pɐs] (“act of removing leaves”, noun)
      • Rhymes: -upas
    • IPA(key): /ʔuˈpas/ [ʔʊˈpas] (“devoid of leaves”, adjective; “condition of being devoid of leaves”, noun)
      • Rhymes: -as
  • Syllabification: u‧pas

Noun

upas (Baybayin spelling ᜂᜉᜐ᜔)

  1. act of removing leaves from plants (especially of sugarcane)
    Synonym: pag-upas

Derived terms

Adjective

upás (Baybayin spelling ᜂᜉᜐ᜔)

  1. removed; devoid of leaves (of a plant)

Noun

upás (Baybayin spelling ᜂᜉᜐ᜔)

  1. condition of being removed of all leaves (of a plant)

Anagrams

  • usap

Ternate

Etymology

Ultimately from Dutch oppas, possibly through Indonesian.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈu.pas]

Noun

upas

  1. an attendant of the sultan

References

  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

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