Where does “titisan” come from?

titisan (Tagalog) comes from Tagalog titis — cigarette or cigar ash.

titisan (Tagalog): ashtray

Definitions

  1. ashtray

Ancestry of “titisan”, step by step

titisan traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tagalog titis

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tagalogtitiscigarette or cigar ash

via Malay titis

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Malaytitisdrop
Every word from Tagalog titis