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Bikol Central
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Philippine *gubát (“to attack; to go to war”). Compare Ilocano & Cebuano gubat, Isnag xubat, Maranao gobat.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡuˈbat/
- Hyphenation: gu‧bat
Noun
gubát (Basahan spelling ᜄᜓᜊᜆ᜔)
- (archaic) war
- Synonym: gera
Cebuano
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Philippine *gubát (“to attack; to go to war”). Compare Ilocano & Bikol Central gubat, Isnag xubat and Maranao gobat.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡubat/
- Hyphenation: gu‧bat
Noun
gúbat (Badlit spelling ᜄᜓᜊᜆ᜔)
- war
Quotations
Derived terms
Ilocano
Etymology
From Proto-Philippine *gubát (“to attack; to go to war”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡuˈbat/
- Hyphenation: gu‧bat
Noun
gubát
- war; battle; combat
Kapampangan
Etymology
From Proto-Philippine *gúbat (“jungle, idle land”). Displaced by pastulan.
The sense "forest" is a semantic loan from Tagalog gubat.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡubət/
- Hyphenation: gu‧bat
Noun
gúbat
- (obsolete) meadow
- Synonym: pastulan
- forest
- Synonym: kakeuan
Limos Kalinga
Etymology
From Proto-Philippine *gubát (“to attack; to go to war”).
Noun
gubát
- war
Tagalog
Etymology 1
From Proto-Philippine *gúbat (“jungle, idle land”). Compare Isnag xinubat, Itawit ginubat, Kapampangan gubat, Waray-Waray kagugub-an.
Pronunciation
Noun
gubat (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜓᜊᜆ᜔)
- woods; woodland; forest
- Synonyms: kakahuyan, kagubatan
- thick growth of bushes; thicket
- Synonyms: sukal, kasukalan
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From Proto-Philippine *gubát (“to attack; to go to war”). Compare Ilocano gubat, Isnag xubat, Bikol Central manggubat, Cebuano gubat, Maranao gobat.
Pronunciation
Noun
gubát (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜓᜊᜆ᜔) (obsolete)
- war
- Synonyms: digmaan, gera
- destruction; raze
- Synonyms: pagkatupok, pagsira
Derived terms
See also
Further reading
- “gubat”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- 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
- 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 71: “Arboleda) Gubat( pp) eſpeſa de montes, deſta ay mucha tierra, pero infructifera de prouecho para labrar caſas”
- page 85: “Aſolar) Gubat(pp) pueblo o çiudad por guerra”
- page 430: “Monte ) Gubat (pp) de arboles y eſpeſura”
- page 533: “Robar) (pp) çiudad por guerra”
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