Palaweño
English
editEtymology
editFrom Spanish palaweño, from Palawan + -eño.
Noun
editPalaweño (plural Palaweños)
- An inhabitant of the Palawan island.
- 1994, Robin Broad, John Cavanagh, Plundering Paradise: The Struggle for the Environment in the Philippines, Univ of California Press, →ISBN, page 43:
- The major fear of Palaweños such as our guides, as they watch their forests disappear, is not the loss of beauty.
- 2016, Stephen L. Moore, As Good As Dead: The Daring Escape of American POWs From a Japanese Death Camp, Penguin, →ISBN:
- Many Palaweños, subjected to air raids and wide ranging abuses from the Japanese, fled into the hills to build primitive homes near the native Batak tribesmen.
Synonyms
editTranslations
editinhabitant of the Palawan island — see Palawan