balwarte
Tagalog edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Spanish baluarte. Doublet of bulebar and bulebard.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
balwarte (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜎ᜔ᜏᜇ᜔ᜆᜒ)
- bulwark; bastion; stronghold
- 1997, Renato Constantino, Ang bagong lumipas, Volume 1[1], →ISBN, page 96:
- Hindi nagkataon lamang na dumanas ang mga lalawigang ito ng maraming pag-aalsang agraryo at naging malalakas na balwarte ng Rebolusyong Filipino.
- It is not only a coincidence that the provinces experienced many agrarian revolts and became strongholds of the Philippine Revolution.
See also edit
Further reading edit
- “balwarte”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018