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Hanunoo
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /buˈwal/
- Rhymes: -al
- Syllabification: bu‧wal
Etymology 1
From Proto-Philippine *buál (“uproot a tree”).
Noun
buwál (Hanunoo spelling ᜪᜳᜯᜮ᜴)
- falling down (with reference to trees)
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Noun
buwál (Hanunoo spelling ᜪᜳᜯᜮ᜴)
- large chunks of recently dug up earth; clods of turned-up soil
Further reading
- Conklin, Harold C. (1953) Hanunóo-English Vocabulary (University of California Publications in Linguistics), volume 9, London, England: University of California Press, →OCLC, page 96
Tagalog
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Proto-Philippine *buál (“uproot a tree”). Compare Ilocano bual, Pangasinan buwal, Hanunoo buwal, Agutaynen boal, and Bikol Central bual. Doublet of buwag.
Noun
buwál (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜏᜎ᜔)
- falling flat on the ground (of something tall or long)
- Synonyms: tumba, pagkatumba, pagkabuwal
- knocking something flat on the ground (of something tall or long)
- Synonyms: pagbubuwal, pagtutumba
- (figurative) bankruptcy
- Synonyms: pagkatumba, pagkabangkarote
- (now chiefly dialectal) tree uproot (especially due to the force of wind)
Derived terms
Adjective
buwál (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜏᜎ᜔)
- fallen flat on the ground (of something tall or long)
- Synonyms: hapay, tumba, bulid
- (figurative) bankrupt
- Synonyms: bangkarote, nabangkarote
Etymology 2
Borrowed from English voile, from French voile, from Old French voil, veil, from Latin vēlum. Doublet of belo.
Noun
buwál (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜏᜎ᜔)
- voile (translucent fabric)
See also
Further reading
- “buwal”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*buál”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI
- Noceda, Fr. Juan José de, Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier
- Santos, Fr. Domingo de los (1835) Tomas Oliva, editor, Vocabulario de la lengua tagala: primera, y segunda parte. (in Spanish), La imprenta nueva de D. Jose Maria Dayot
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