buwan

See also: bǔwán

Cebuano

Etymology

See bulan.

Noun

buwan

1. (dialectal, Metro 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

Porohanon

Etymology

From Proto-Bisayan *bulan, from Proto-Central Philippine *bulan, from Proto-Philippine *bulan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

Noun

buwan

1. moon
2. month

Tagalog

buwan

Alternative forms

• bouan, bovan — obsolete, Spanish-based orthography
• buan — obsolete
• b'wan — contraction, uncommon
• bwan — superseded, pre-2007

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 ᮘᮥᮜᮔ᮪ (bulan), Javanese ꦉꦩ꧀ꦧꦸꦭꦤ꧀ (rembulan), Malay bulan, Fijian vula, Malagasy volana, and Niuean pula. Doublet of bulan.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /buˈan/ [ˈbwan̪]
  • Rhymes: -an
• (now dialectal, Batangas, Rizal, Marinduque, alternative) IPA^(key): /ˈbuan/ [ˈbuː.ɐn̪] (now uncommon)
  • Rhymes: -uan
• Syllabification: bu‧wan

Noun

buwán (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜏᜈ᜔)

1. moon

   Synonym: (neologism) bulan

2. month

Usage notes

• Today, in some parts of Batangas, sense “month” is pronounced as búwan ( /ˈbuan/) while “moon” is pronounced as buwán (/buˈan/). Both senses were pronounced búwan around the 19th century according to the Spanish dictionaries but now both buwán in Standard Tagalog.

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
• tunaw na buwan

 

See also

• gasuklay
• kabilugan
• kalabit
• katapusan
• katunawan
• Kulalaying
• laib
• malakarit
• manilong
• maningas
• Mayari
• mulangdilim
• sangmukti
• tagdilim
• taon

 

Further reading

• “buwan”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Serrano-Laktaw, Pedro (1914) Diccionario tagálog-hispano, Ateneo de Manila, page 139.
• 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
• 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”
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*bulaN”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI