bulalakaw

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Bikol Central

Etymology

Borrowed from Hiligaynon or Cebuano bulalakaw, from Proto-Philippine *bulalakaw (“shooting star; kind of spirit”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bulaˈlakaw/
  • Hyphenation: bu‧la‧la‧kaw

Noun

bulalákaw (Basahan spelling ᜊᜓᜎᜎᜃᜏ᜔)

  1. (astronomy) meteorite, shooting star

Cebuano

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Philippine *bulalakaw (“shooting star; kind of spirit”).

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: bu‧la‧la‧kaw
  • IPA(key): /bulaˈlakaw/

Noun

bulalákaw (Badlit spelling ᜊᜓᜎᜎᜃᜏ᜔)

  1. (Visayan mythology) a deity described as a shining bird or human-bird hybrid
  2. a shooting star; a meteorite

Quotations

Hiligaynon

Etymology

From Proto-Philippine *bulalakaw (“shooting star; kind of spirit”).

Noun

bulalákaw

  1. (Visayan mythology) a deity described as a shining bird or human-bird hybrid
  2. a meteorite, shooting star

Kapampangan

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bʊləˈlakaw/
  • IPA(key): /bʊləˈlako/
  • Hyphenation: bu‧la‧la‧kaw

Noun

bulalákaw

  1. Alternative form of bulalako

Tagalog

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Philippine *bulalakaw (“shooting star; kind of spirit”). Cognate with Kapampangan bulalako (“meteor”), Cebuano bulakaw (“spirit resembling St. Elmo's fire”), Maranao bolalakaw (“god of fish”), and Tausug bulākaw (“meteor”).

Pronunciation

Noun

bulalakaw (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜎᜎᜃᜏ᜔)

  1. meteor; shooting star
    Synonyms: taeng-bituin, meteoro, bituing-alpas, bituing-may-sumbol, (obsolete) sulong-mangayaw
  2. St. Elmo's fire
    Synonym: santelmo
  3. (by extension) comet
    Synonym: kometa
  4. (by extension, obsolete) rocket

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “bulalakaw”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
  • Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*bulalákaw₂”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI
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