kabuyaw

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Kapampangan kabuyau (modern kabuyo), from Proto-Philippine *kabuʀaw. Compare Ivatan kavugaw, Ilocano kabugaw / kaburaw, and Cebuano kabugaw. See also Ilocano kamuyaw.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /kaˈbujaw/ [kɐˈbuː.jaʊ̯]
• Rhymes: -ujaw
• Syllabification: ka‧bu‧yaw
• Homophone: Cabuyao

Noun

kabuyaw (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜊᜓᜌᜏ᜔)

1. kaffir lime (Citrus hystrix)

Related terms

• Cabuyao

See also

• suha

 

Further reading

• “kabuyaw”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2024
• “kabuyaw”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero‎^[1], La Noble Villa de Pila, page 440: “Naranjas) Cabuyao (pp) grandes como las de china, ſon ſilveſtres mas cultibadas en buena tierra ſe hacen buenas”
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*kabuRaw”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI