buwan
CebuanoEdit
EtymologyEdit
See bulan.
NounEdit
buwan
- (dialectal, Urban Cebu, Bohol, Leyte) Alternative form of bulan
- ring or circle where the can is placed or made to stand in bato lata
VerbEdit
buwan
TagalogEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
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.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
buwán
Derived termsEdit
See alsoEdit
- 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”)