Palaweño

English

Etymology

From Spanish palaweño, from Palawan +‎ -eño.

Noun

Palaweño (plural Palaweños)

1. 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

• Palawan
• Palawano
• Pala'wan

Translations

inhabitant of the Palawan island — see Palawan