buwag

Cebuano

Alternative forms

• bulag

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: bu‧wag

Verb

buwag

1. to separate; to cause (things or people) to be separate
2. to disunite something from one thing; to disconnect
3. to estrange
4. to divorce
5. to have one's marriage annulled

Adjective

buwag

1. detached
2. (of spouses) estranged; living apart
3. (by extension) divorced
4. (by extension) having had the marriage annulled

Adverb

buwag

1. apart; aside

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:buwag.

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• boag, bouag — obsolete, Spanish-based orthography
• buag — now dialectal

Etymology

From Proto-Philippine *buag. Doublet of buwal. See also Cebuano bulag.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /buˈaɡ/ [ˈbwaɡ̚]
• Rhymes: -aɡ
• Syllabification: bu‧wag

Adjective

buwág (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜏᜄ᜔)

1. demolished; torn down

   Synonyms: giba, giniba, wasak, winasak

2. abolished; disbanded; dissolved (of an organization, etc.)

   Synonym: lansag

Derived terms

• bumuwag
• buwagin
• mabuwag
• magbuwag
• pagbuwag
• pagkabuwag

 

Noun

buwág (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜏᜄ᜔)

1. demolition; tearing down

   Synonyms: pagbuwag, giba, paggiba, wasak, pagwasak

2. abolition; disbandment; dissolution (of an organization, etc.)

   Synonyms: lansag, paglansag, pagbuwag

Further reading

• “buwag”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2024
• “buwag”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*buág”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

Anagrams

• bugaw