buwan

Cebuano

Etymology

See bulan.

Noun

buwan

1. (dialectal, Urban Cebu, Bohol, Leyte) Alternative form of bulan
2. ring or circle where the can is placed or made to stand in bato lata

Verb

buwan

1. in bato lata, in an event of a standing, to use the buwan as an attack line

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Tagalog

buwan

Alternative forms

• bouan, 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

Noun

buwán

1. moon
2. month

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 diety”)
• laib (“shrinking of the full moon after a few days”)
• malakarit (“new moon”)
• manilong (“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”)