bubalo

Borrowed from Latin būbalus, from Ancient Greek βούβᾰλος (boúbălos, “antelope, wild ox”). Compare Spanish búbalo, Italian bufalo, French buffle, German Büffel, Polish bawół, Russian бу́йвол (bújvol), as well as Irish buabhall, Modern Greek βουβάλι (vouváli), Romanian bivol, Latvian bifelis.

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• IPA^(key): /buˈbalo/
• Rhymes: -alo
• Hyphenation: bu‧ba‧lo

bubalo (accusative singular bubalon, plural bubaloj, accusative plural bubalojn)

1. buffalo (bovine of the genus Bubalus)

• akvobubalo (“water buffalo”)

bubalo m (plural bubali)

1. hartebeast

būbalō

1. dative/ablative singular of būbalus

búbalo n (Cyrillic spelling бу́бало)

1. bug
2. beetle
3. insect

Borrowed from Spanish búbalo, from Latin būbalus, from Ancient Greek βούβαλος (boúbalos, “antelope, wild ox”). Doublet of bupalo.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈbubalo/ [ˌbuː.bɐˈlo]
• Rhymes: -ubalo
• Syllabification: bu‧ba‧lo

búbaló (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜊᜎᜓ)

1. African antelope

• “bubalo”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Panganiban, José Villa (1973) Diksyunaryo-Tesauro Pilipino-Ingles (overall work in Tagalog and English), Quezon City: Manlapaz Publishing Co., page 179