buwan

Cebuano

Etymology

See bulan.

Noun

buwan

1. (dialectal, Urban Cebu, Bohol, Leyte) Alternative form of bulan
2. ring or circle where the can is placed or made to stand in bato lata

Verb

buwan

1. in bato lata, in an event of a standing, to use the buwan as an attack line

Tagalog

buwan

Alternative forms

• bouan, bovan — obsolete, Spanish-based orthography
• buan — obsolete

Etymology

Elision of /l/ from Proto-Philippine *bulan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN. Compare Ilocano bulan, Pangasinan bulan, Kapampangan bulan, Cebuano bulan, Hiligaynon bulan, Waray-Waray bulan, Maranao bolan, Indonesian bulan, Sundanese bulan, Javanese bulan, Malay bulan, Fijian vula, Malagasy volana, and Niuean pula. Doublet of bulan.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: bu‧wan
• IPA^(key): /buˈan/, [ˈbwan]
• IPA^(key): /ˈbuan/, [ˈbu.ɐn] (obsolete)
• Rhymes: -an

Noun

buwán (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜏᜈ᜔)

1. moon

   Synonyms: (rare) luna, (neologism) bulan

2. month

   Synonym: (rare) mes

Derived terms

• bagong buwan
• bubuwanin
• buwan-buwan
• buwanan
• buwanang dalaw
• buwang kabilugan
• buwang palaba
• buwang patunaw
• dagang buwan
• hugis-buwan
• kabilugan ng buwan
• kabuwanan
• kalahatian-ng-buwan
• patay ang buwan
• sambuwan
• suntok sa buwan

 

See also

• gasuklay (“crescent moon”)
• kabilugan (“full moon”)
• kalabit (“starting of the new moon”)
• katapusan (“last days of the month”)
• katunawan (“last quarter”)
• kulalaying (“Tagalog lunar deity”)
• laib (“shrinking of the full moon after a few days”)
• malakarit (“new moon”)
• manilong (“lunation, synodic month”)
• maningas (“lunation, synodic month”)
• mulangdilim (“first day of shrinking from the full moon”)
• palaba (“moonrise, crescent moon”)
• sangmukti (“blemishes on the full moon”)
• tagdilim (“days which the moon is not visible”)
• taon (“year”)

 

Further reading

• “buwan”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2018
• 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 & Tagalog), 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 & Tagalog), 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 395: “Luna) Bovan (pp) L. del çielo”
  • page 419: “Mes) Bovan (pp) de los doce del año”