Batangas
English
Proper noun
Batangas
- A province of the Philippines.
- The capital city of Batangas, Philippines; a former municipality
Translations
province of the Philippines
Cebuano
Proper noun
Batangas
- Batangas (a province of the Philippines)
- Batangas (a city, the provincial capital of Batangas, Philippines; a former municipality)
Spanish
Etymology
From Tagalog batangan (“timberland; place of wooden rafts”), from batang (“log”) + -an (“place marker suffix”), after the wooden rafts found on the Calumpang River in present-day Batangas City.
Proper noun
Batangas f
- Batangas (a province of the Philippines)
- Batangas (a city, the provincial capital of Batangas, Philippines; a former municipality)
Tagalog
Etymology
From Spanish Batangas, from Tagalog batangan (“timberland; place of wooden rafts”), from batang (“log”) + -an (“place marker suffix”). The province is named by the Spaniards after the wooden rafts found on the Calumpang River in present-day Batangas City.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: Ba‧tan‧gas
- IPA(key): /baˈtaŋɡas/, [bɐˈtaŋ.ɡɐs]
Proper noun
Batangas

Ang lokasyon ng Batangas sa Pilipinas (The location of Batangas in the Philippines)
- Batangas (a province of the Philippines)
- Synonym: (poetic) Batangan
- Batangas (a city, the provincial capital of Batangas, Philippines; a former municipality)
Related terms
Further reading
- “Batangas”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2018
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