baong baliw

Tagalog

Alternative forms

bauong balio – obsolete, Abecedario orthography

Etymology

From bao +‎ -ng +‎ baliw, literally “crazy widow/er”.

Pronunciation

Hyphenation: ba‧ong ba‧liw

IPA^(key): /ˌbaʔoŋ baˈliw/, [ˌba.ʔom bɐˈliʊ̯]

Noun

baong balíw (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜂᜅ᜔ ᜊᜎᜒᜏ᜔)

(obsolete) someone whose fiancé or fiancée died before marriage

Further reading

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

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