bakood

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• bacood, bacoor, bacouod, bacouor — obsolete, Spanish-based orthography
• bakoor, bakuor
• bakulod
• bakuod
• bakuwod, bakuwor — obsolete

Etymology

From earlier variant bakulod, from Proto-Philippine *bakúlud (“stoney plateau”), with elision of /l/. Compare Ilocano bakulod, Kapampangan bakulud, Hanunoo bakulod, Bikol Central bakulod, Aklanon bakueod, Cebuano bakulod, Hiligaynon bakolod, Maranao bakolod, and Tausug bakūd.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog)
  • IPA^(key): /baˈkoʔod/, [bɐˈxo.ʔod]
  • IPA^(key): /bakoˈʔod/, [bɐ.xoˈʔod]
• Rhymes: -oʔod, -od
• Syllabification: ba‧ko‧od

Noun

bakood or bakoód (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜃᜓᜂᜇ᜔)

1. highland; plateau

   Synonyms: talampas, minangon

2. sugar cane field or plantation

   Synonym: tubuhan

Derived terms

• bakoorin
• magbakood

 

Related terms

• Bacoor

 

See also

• bana

 

Further reading

• “bakood”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Serrano-Laktaw, Pedro (1914) Diccionario tagálog-hispano, Ateneo de Manila, page 79.
• 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