balwarte
Tagalog
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Spanish baluarte, from Old Occitan or Old French balouart, from Middle Dutch bolwerc, from Middle High German bolwerc. Doublet of bulebar and bulebard.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /balˈwaɾte/ [bɐlˈwaɾ.t̪ɛ]
- Rhymes: -aɾte
- Syllabification: bal‧war‧te
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
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