lakad ang bulan
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Cebuano
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- lakad ang buwan — elided "l"
- lakad — shortened form
Etymology
[edit]Literally, "the moon goes beyond (the zenith)," so called because the moon at this phase goes farther away each day to east of the zenith when darkness falls, and moving towards that position later in the evening.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Cebuano) IPA(key): /ˌlakad ʔaŋ ˈbulan/ [ˌl̪a.kɐd̪ ʔɐŋ ˈbu.l̪ɐn̪]
- Hyphenation: la‧kad‧ang‧bu‧lan
Noun
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lakad ang bulan (Badlit spelling ᜎᜃᜇ᜔ ᜀᜅ᜔ ᜊᜓᜎᜈ᜔)
- (obsolete, astronomy) second quarter; waxing gibbous; lunar phase between half-moon and going into full moon
- Coordinate terms: (gibbous moon) dulom, dulomdulom, dulom nga bulan, pilok
Usage notes
[edit]- Traditionally, the night after the half-moon is designated as "unang lakad" or "primerong lakad" (first lakad), and the succeeding nights up until the full moon are named accordingly by ordinal numbers; e.g. "ikaduhang lakad", "ikatulong lakad", ... "ikapitong lakad".