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English
Noun
balintawak (plural balintawaks)
- A style of Filipina native dress, with a large kerchief folded over one shoulder.
Tagalog
Etymology
Blust (2010–) posits that it may be a borrowing, although the dress style in question apparently was a Spanish introduction, the name is native and may have once had other referents (cf. *balintawafk 'plant sp.).[1] Compare Kapampangan balintauak (“Doryxylon spinosum”).
Pronunciation
Noun
balintawák (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜎᜒᜈ᜔ᜆᜏᜃ᜔)
- balintawak (style of Filipina native dress, with a large kerchief folded over one shoulder)
See also
References
- ^ Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) loan “dress”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI
Further reading
- “balintawak”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
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