balintawak

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English

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Noun

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balintawak (plural balintawaks)

  1. A style of Filipina native dress, with a large kerchief folded over one shoulder.

Tagalog

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Etymology

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Blust (2010–) posits that it may be a borrowing, although the dress style in question apparently was a Spanish introduction, the name is native and may have once had other referents (cf. *balintawafk [sic] 'plant sp.).[1] Compare Kapampangan balintauak (Doryxylon spinosum).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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balintawák (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜎᜒᜈ᜔ᜆᜏᜃ᜔)

  1. balintawak (style of Filipina native dress, with a large kerchief folded over one shoulder)

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) loan “dress”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

Further reading

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  • balintawak”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

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