balintawak

See also: Balintawak

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 'plant sp.).[1]

Pronunciation
  • Hyphenation: ba‧lin‧ta‧wak
  • IPA(key): /balintaˈwak/, [bɐ.lɪn.tɐˈwak]

Noun

balintawák (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜎᜒᜈ᜔ᜆᜏᜃ᜔)

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

See also

References
  1. Robert Blust; Stephen Trussel (2010-) Austronesian Comparative Dictionary‎
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