banwa

From Proto-Philippine, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *banua, from Proto-Austronesian *banua.

• Hyphenation: ban‧wa
• IPA^(key): /banˈwaʔ/

banwâ

1. (formal) town

   Synonym: barangay

2. (formal) municipality

   Synonym: munisipiyo

3. (formal) country; nation

   Synonym: nasiyon

From Proto-Philippine, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *banua, from Proto-Austronesian *banua.

• Hyphenation: ban‧wa
• IPA^(key): /banˈwa/, [bʌn̪ˈwa]

banwá

1. fatherland, homeland
2. city; community; town

• barangay
• dakbayan
• lungsod
• munisipyo
• siyudad

banwa

1. place

From Proto-Philippine, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *banua, from Proto-Austronesian *banua.

bánwa

1. city, community, town

banwa

1. Súlat Wáwâ spelling of banua

From Proto-Philippine, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *banua, from Proto-Austronesian *banua.

banwa

1. town

banwá

1. sun

1. Benton, Richard Anthony, Pangasinan dictionary (1971)

• banoua, banua – obsolete, Abecedario orthography

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *banua (“inhabited land, territory supporting the life of a community”). Compare Ibatan vanua (“port”), Pangasinan banwa (“sun”), Kapampangan banua (“year, sky, heaven”), Cebuano banwa (“homeland”), Hiligaynon banwa (“town”), and Malay benua (“large expanse of land”).

• Hyphenation: ban‧wa
• IPA^(key): /ˈbanwa/, [ˈban.wɐ]

banwa (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜈ᜔ᜏ)

1. (uncommon) town; native land

   Synonyms: bayan, inang-bayan

2. (politics, neologism) state

   Synonym: estado

3. (obsolete) sky

   Synonym: langit

4. (obsolete) weather

   Synonyms: panahon, klima, (obsolete) bayan

• bansa
• Tagbanwa

• “banwa”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2018
• Fr. Juan José de Noceda; Fr. Pedro de Sanlucar (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves‎ (in Spanish & Tagalog), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier
• del Rosario, Gonsalo (1969) Maugnaying Talasalitaang Pang-agham : Ingles-Pilipino [Correlative Word List for Sciences : English-Filipino] (in English & Tagalog), Manila: National Book Store, Inc., →LCCN, →OL

banwá

1. grass; weed; bush