buwal

Tagalog

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /buˈal/ [ˈbwal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: bu‧wal

Etymology 1

From Proto-Philippine *buál (“uproot a tree”). Compare Ilocano bual, Pangasinan buwal, Hanunoo bual, Agutaynen boal, and Bikol Central bual. Doublet of buwag.

Noun

buwál (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜏᜎ᜔)

1. falling flat on the ground (of something tall or long)

   Synonyms: tumba, pagkatumba, pagkabuwal

2. knocking something flat on the ground (of something tall or long)

   Synonyms: pagbubuwal, pagtutumba

3. (figurative) bankruptcy

   Synonyms: pagkatumba, pagkabangkarote

4. (now chiefly dialectal) tree uproot (especially due to the force of wind)

Alternative forms

• boual, buual — obsolete, Spanish-based orthography
• bual — dialectal

Derived terms

• bumuwal
• ibuwal
• mabuwal
• pagbubuwal
• pagkabuwal

 

Adjective

buwál (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜏᜎ᜔)

1. fallen flat on the ground (of something tall or long)

   Synonyms: hapay, tumba, bulid

2. (figurative) bankrupt

   Synonyms: bangkarote, nabangkarote

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English voile, from French voile, from Old French voil, veil, from Latin vēlum. Doublet of belo.

Alternative forms

• bual

Noun

buwál (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜏᜎ᜔)

1. voile (translucent fabric)

See also

• perkal

 

Further reading

• “buwal”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*buál”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI
• 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

Anagrams

• bulaw, lubaw