buwan
Tagalog
buwan
Alternative forms
- bouan, bovan – obsolete, Abecedario orthography
- buan – obsolete
Etymology
From Proto-Philippine *bulan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN. Compare Cebuano bulan, Fijian vula, Hiligaynon bulan, Ilocano bulan, Indonesian bulan, Javanese bulan, Kapampangan bulan, Malagasy volana, Malay bulan, Niuean pula, Pangasinan bulan, Sundanese bulan, and Waray-Waray bulan.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: bu‧wan
- IPA(key): /buˈan/, [ˈbwan]
- Rhymes: -an
Derived terms
- bagong buwan
- bubuwanin
- buwanan
- buwanang dalaw
- buwan-buwan
- buwang kabilugan
- buwang palaba
- buwang patunaw
- dagang buwan
- hugis-buwan
- kabilugan ng buwan
- kabuwanan
- kalahatian-ng-buwan
- patay ang buwan
- sambuwan
- suntok sa buwan
See also
- gasuklay (“crescent moon”)
- kabilugan (“full moon”)
- kalabit (“starting of the new moon”)
- katapusan (“last days of the month”)
- katunawan (“last quarter”)
- kulalaying (“Tagalog lunar deity”)
- laib (“shrinking of the full moon after a few days”)
- malakarit (“new moon”)
- manilong (“lunation, synodic month”)
- maningas (“lunation, synodic month”)
- mulangdilim (“first day of shrinking from the full moon”)
- palaba (“moonrise, crescent moon”)
- sangmukti (“blemishes on the full moon”)
- tagdilim (“days which the moon is not visible”)
- taon (“year”)
Further reading
- Fr. Pedro de San Buena Ventura (1613), Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero, La Noble Villa de Pila
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