gubat

See also: Gubat

Bikol Central

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Philippine *gubát (“to attack; to go to war”). Compare Ilocano & Cebuano gubat, Isnag xubat, Maranao gobat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡubat/, [ˈɡu.bat]
• Hyphenation: gu‧bat

Noun

gubát (Basahan spelling ᜄᜓᜊᜆ᜔)

1. (archaic) war

   Synonym: gera

Cebuano

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Philippine *gubát (“to attack; to go to war”). Compare Ilocano & Bikol Central gubat, Isnag xubat Maranao gobat.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: gu‧bat
• IPA^(key): /ˈɡubat/, [ˈɡu.bʌt̪]

Noun

gubat

1. war

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:gubat.

Ilocano

Etymology

From Proto-Philippine *gubát (“to attack; to go to war”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡuˈbat/, [ɡuˈbat]
• Hyphenation: gu‧bat

Noun

gubát

1. war; battle; combat

Kapampangan

Etymology

From Proto-Philippine *gúbat (“jungle, idle land”). Displaced by pastulan.

The sense "forest" is a semantic loan from Tagalog gubat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡubət/, [ˈɡuː.bət]
• Hyphenation: gu‧bat

Noun

gúbat

1. (obsolete) meadow

   Synonym: pastulan

2. forest

   Synonym: kakeuan

Limos Kalinga

Etymology

From Proto-Philippine *gubát (“to attack; to go to war”).

Noun

gubát

1. war

Tagalog

Etymology 1

From Proto-Philippine *gúbat (“jungle, idle land”). Compare Isnag xinubat, Itawit ginubat, Kapampangan gubat, Waray-Waray kagugub-an.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡubat/, [ˈɡu.bɐt]
• Hyphenation: gu‧bat

Noun

gubat (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜓᜊᜆ᜔)

1. woods; woodland; forest

   Synonyms: kakahuyan, kagubatan

2. thick growth of bushes; thicket

   Synonyms: sukal, kasukalan

Derived terms

• baboy-gubat
• baligubat
• gubatan
• hayop-gubat
• kagubatan
• magubat
• manggubat
• manggugubat
• mulinsagubat
• palagubatan
• panggugubat
• sagubat
• tagagubat
• tanod-gubat
• tsaang-gubat

 

Etymology 2

From Proto-Philippine *gubát (“to attack; to go to war”). Compare Ilocano gubat, Isnag xubat, Bikol Central manggubat, Cebuano gubat, Maranao gobat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡuˈbat/, [ɡʊˈbat]

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡubat/, [ˈɡu.bɐt] (obsolete)
• Hyphenation: gu‧bat

Noun

gubát (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜓᜊᜆ᜔) (obsolete)

1. war

   Synonyms: digmaan, gera

2. destruction; raze

   Synonyms: pagkatupok, pagsira

Derived terms

• gubatin
• gumubat
• magubat
• makagubat
• manggubat
• nagubat

 

See also

• gunaw

Further reading

• “gubat”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 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), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier
• San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero‎^[2], La Noble Villa de Pila
  • page 71: “Arboleda) Gubat( pp) eſpeſa de montes, deſta ay mucha [en eſta] tierra, pero infructifera [aun que] de prouecho para labrar caſas”
  • page 85: “Aſolar) Gubat(pp) pueblo o çiudad por guerra”
  • page 430: “Monte ) Gubat (pp) de arboles y eſpeſura”
  • page 533: “Robar) [Gubat] (pp) çiudad por guerra”