balangay
English edit
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Noun edit
balangay (plural balangays)
- A type of wooden watercraft used by a group of Austronesian people when they migrated to the Philippines.
- Alternative form of barangay (“local government unit in the Philippines”)
Further reading edit
Cebuano edit
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: ba‧la‧ngay
Etymology 1 edit
From Austronesian.
Noun edit
balangay
- a type of wooden watercraft used by a group of Austronesian people when they migrated to the Philippines
Etymology 2 edit
Named after the wooden watercraft.
Noun edit
balangay
- (obsolete) a barangay; the smallest administrative district in the Philippines, headed by a barangay captain
Tagalog edit
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Etymology 1 edit
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *baraŋay. Compare Malay berangai (“pirate boat or proa”). Doublet of barangay.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
balangay (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜎᜅᜌ᜔)
- (historical, nautical) a type of wooden watercraft Austronesian people used when they migrated to the Philippines with 12 to 16 rowers
- community of people; group of families; village
- local branch; lodge (of groups such as the Freemasonry)
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Etymology 2 edit
Compare Malay berangai (“apparently dead; in a state of suspended animation”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
balangáy (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜎᜅᜌ᜔) (obsolete)
- (swimming) backstroke
- Synonym: himbalangay
- (pathology) sudden death due to cerebral hemorrhage or cardiac arrest
- Synonym: himbalangay