buwal

Hanunoo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /buˈwal/ [buˈɐl]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: bu‧wal

Etymology 1

From Proto-Philippine *buál (“uproot a tree”).

Noun

buwál (Hanunoo spelling ᜪᜳᜯᜮ᜴)

1. falling down (with reference to trees)

Derived terms

• nabuwal

Etymology 2

Noun

buwál (Hanunoo spelling ᜪᜳᜯᜮ᜴)

1. large chunks of recently dug up earth; clods of turned-up soil

Further reading

• Conklin, Harold C. (1953) Hanunóo-English Vocabulary (University of California Publications in Linguistics), volume 9, London, England: University of California Press, →OCLC, page 96

Tagalog

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /buˈal/ [ˈbwal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: bu‧wal

Etymology 1

From Proto-Philippine *buál (“uproot a tree”). Compare Ilocano bual, Pangasinan buwal, Hanunoo buwal, Agutaynen boal, and Bikol Central bual. Doublet of buwag.

Noun

buwál (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜏᜎ᜔)

1. falling flat on the ground (of something tall or long)

   Synonyms: tumba, pagkatumba, pagkabuwal

2. knocking something flat on the ground (of something tall or long)

   Synonyms: pagbubuwal, pagtutumba

3. (figurative) bankruptcy

   Synonyms: pagkatumba, pagkabangkarote

4. (now chiefly dialectal) tree uproot (especially due to the force of wind)

Alternative forms

• boual, buual — obsolete, Spanish-based spelling
• bual — dialectal

Derived terms

• bumuwal
• ibuwal
• mabuwal
• pagbubuwal
• pagkabuwal

Adjective

buwál (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜏᜎ᜔)

1. fallen flat on the ground (of something tall or long)

   Synonyms: hapay, tumba, bulid

2. (figurative) bankrupt

   Synonyms: bangkarote, nabangkarote

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English voile, from French voile, from Old French voil, veil, from Latin vēlum. Doublet of belo.

Alternative forms

• bual

Noun

buwál (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜏᜎ᜔)

1. voile (translucent fabric)

See also

• perkal

Further reading

• “buwal”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*buál”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI
• Noceda, Fr. Juan José de, Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves‎^[1] (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier
• Santos, Fr. Domingo de los (1835) Tomas Oliva, editor, Vocabulario de la lengua tagala: primera, y segunda parte.‎^[2] (in Spanish), La imprenta nueva de D. Jose Maria Dayot
• San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero‎^[3], La Noble Villa de Pila, page 134: “Caerſe [(pc)] cruz poſte o otra coſa ſin quebrar”

Anagrams

• bulaw, lubaw