buwang palaba
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Tagalog[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From buwan (“moon”) + palaba (“waxing; growing”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Standard Tagalog)
- Syllabification: bu‧wang pa‧la‧ba
Noun[edit]
buwáng palabâ (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜏᜅ᜔ ᜉᜎᜊ)
- crescent moon
- Synonyms: gasuklay, bulang gasuklay
- (obsolete) waxing moon
See also[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- Panganiban, José Villa (1973) Diksyunaryo-Tesauro Pilipino-Ingles (overall work in Tagalog and English), Quezon City: Manlapaz Publishing Co., page 575
- 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