balwarte

Tagalog

Alternative forms

  • baluwarte

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish baluarte, from Old Occitan or Old French balouart, from Middle Dutch bolwerc, from Middle High German bolwerc. Doublet of bulebar and bulebard.

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /balˈwaɾte/ [bɐlˈwaɾ.t̪ɛ]
  • Rhymes: -aɾte
  • Syllabification: bal‧war‧te

Noun

balwarte (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜎ᜔ᜏᜇ᜔ᜆᜒ)

  1. bulwark; bastion; stronghold
    • 1997, Renato Constantino, Ang bagong lumipas, Volume 1‎[1], →ISBN, page 96:
      Hindi nagkataon lamang na dumanas ang mga lalawigang ito ng maraming pag-aalsang agraryo at naging malalakas na balwarte ng Rebolusyong Filipino.
      It is not only a coincidence that the provinces experienced many agrarian revolts and became strongholds of the Philippine Revolution.

See also

Further reading

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