balintawak

See also: Balintawak

English

Noun

balintawak (plural balintawaks)

  1. A style of Filipina native dress, with a large kerchief folded over one shoulder.

Tagalog

Etymology

Blust (2010–) posits that it may be a borrowing, although the dress style in question apparently was a Spanish introduction, the name is native and may have once had other referents (cf. *balintawafk [sic] 'plant sp.).[1] Compare Kapampangan balintauak (“Doryxylon spinosum”).

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /balintaˈwak/ [bɐ.lɪn̪.t̪ɐˈwak̚]
  • Rhymes: -ak
  • Syllabification: ba‧lin‧ta‧wak

Noun

balintawák (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜎᜒᜈ᜔ᜆᜏᜃ᜔)

  1. balintawak (style of Filipina native dress, with a large kerchief folded over one shoulder)

See also

References

  1. ^ Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) loan “dress”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

Further reading

  • “balintawak”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

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