buwan
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buwan
Cebuano
Etymology
See bulan.
Pronunciation
Noun
búwan (Badlit spelling ᜊᜓᜏᜈ᜔)
- (dialectal, Metro Cebu, Bohol, Leyte) Alternative form of bulan
- ring or circle where the can is placed or made to stand in bato lata
Verb
búwan (Badlit spelling ᜊᜓᜏᜈ᜔)
Porohanon
Etymology
From Proto-Bisayan *bulan, from Proto-Central Philippine *bulan, from Proto-Philippine *bulan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.
Noun
buwan
Tagalog
Alternative forms
- bouan, bovan — obsolete, Spanish-based orthography
- buan — obsolete
- b'wan — contraction, uncommon
- bwan — superseded, pre-2007
Etymology
Elision of /l/ from Proto-Philippine *bulan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN. Compare Ilocano bulan, Pangasinan bulan, Kapampangan bulan, Cebuano bulan, Hiligaynon bulan, Waray-Waray bulan, Maranao bolan, Indonesian bulan, Sundanese ᮘᮥᮜᮔ᮪ (bulan), Javanese ꦉꦩ꧀ꦧꦸꦭꦤ꧀ (rembulan), Malay bulan, Fijian vula, Malagasy volana, and Niuean pula. Doublet of bulan.
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /buˈan/
- Rhymes: -an
- (now dialectal, Batangas, Rizal, Marinduque, alternative) IPA(key): /ˈbuan/ (now uncommon)
- Rhymes: -uan
- Syllabification: bu‧wan
Noun
buwán (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜏᜈ᜔)
Usage notes
- Today, in some parts of Batangas, sense “month” is pronounced as búwan ( /ˈbuan/) while “moon” is pronounced as buwán (/buˈan/). Both senses were pronounced búwan around the 19th century according to the Spanish dictionaries but now both buwán in Standard Tagalog.
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Further reading
- “buwan”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- Serrano-Laktaw, Pedro (1914) Diccionario tagálog-hispano, Ateneo de Manila, page 139.
- 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
- San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero, La Noble Villa de Pila
- page 395: “Luna) Bovan (pp) L. del çielo”
- page 419: “Mes) Bovan (pp) de los doce del año”
- Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*bulaN”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI