balangay
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English[edit]
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Noun[edit]
balangay (plural balangays)
- A type of wooden watercraft used by a group of Austronesian people when they migrated to the Philippines.
- Alternative form of barangay (“local government unit in the Philippines”)
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Cebuano[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- Hyphenation: ba‧la‧ngay
Etymology 1[edit]
From Austronesian.
Noun[edit]
balangay
- a type of wooden watercraft used by a group of Austronesian people when they migrated to the Philippines
Etymology 2[edit]
Named after the wooden watercraft.
Noun[edit]
balangay
- (obsolete) a barangay; the smallest administrative district in the Philippines, headed by a barangay captain
Tagalog[edit]
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Etymology 1[edit]
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *baraŋay. Compare Malay berangai (“pirate boat or proa”). Doublet of barangay.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /baˈlaŋaj/ [bɐˈla.ŋaɪ̯]
- Rhymes: -aŋaj
- Syllabification: ba‧la‧ngay
Noun[edit]
balangay (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜎᜅᜌ᜔)
- (historical, nautical) a type of wooden watercraft Austronesian people used when they migrated to the Philippines with 12 to 16 rowers
- community of people; group of families; village
- local branch; lodge (of groups such as the Freemasonry)
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Etymology 2[edit]
Compare Malay berangai (“apparently dead; in a state of suspended animation”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /balaˈŋaj/ [bɐ.lɐˈŋaɪ̯]
- Rhymes: -aj
- Syllabification: ba‧la‧ngay
Noun[edit]
balangáy (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜎᜅᜌ᜔) (obsolete)
- (swimming) backstroke
- Synonym: himbalangay
- (pathology) sudden death due to cerebral hemorrhage or cardiac arrest
- Synonym: himbalangay
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