sawali

sawalì

1. woven, split bamboo strips used for walling

• sauali — obsolete, Spanish-based spelling

From Proto-Philippine *sawaliq (“bamboo walling”). Compare Ilocano sawali, Kapampangan sauali, Bikol Central sawali, Cebuano sawali, and Chamorro saguale'. See also Philippine Spanish sauale.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /saˈwaliʔ/ [sɐˈwaː.lɪʔ]
• Rhymes: -aliʔ
• Syllabification: sa‧wa‧li

sawalì (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜏᜎᜒ) (carpentry)

1. woven, coarse mat of interlaced, thin, split bamboo strips (used for making simple walls in native houses, drying grains under the house, etc.)

• “sawali”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2024
• “sawali”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*sawaliq”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI