EXPLORE FILIPINO WORDS IN DEPTH
EXPLORE FILIPINO WORDS IN DEPTH
Peak; height (of an event); thick (of an event)...
torpedo (weapon)...
to sabotage a courtship...
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/sag-SA-gan/
FIL: Ang kasukdulan, pinakamatindi, o pinakaabala na bahagi ng isang pangyayari, panahon, o gawain.
EN: Peak; height (of an event); thick (of an event)
It's the 'kasagsagan' of the 12.12 sale when everyone's adding to cart and the website is about to crash. It's the 'kasagsagan' of summer when it's so hot you can fry an egg on the pavement. It's the primetime, the rush hour, the most intense part of anything.
From 'sagsag' (to be busy, to go on relentlessly).
Almost always used with the prefix 'ka-', forming 'kasagsagan', to mean 'the very peak/height of'.
🇵🇭 Sa kasagsagan ng bagyo, nawalan kami ng kuryente.
🇺🇸 At the height of the storm, we lost electricity.
🇵🇭 Huwag kang pupunta sa mall sa kasagsagan ng Christmas rush.
🇺🇸 Don't go to the mall in the thick of the Christmas rush.
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Isang kalagayan o lugar na may kakulangan o kawalan ng suplay ng tubig.