barangay

• balangay
• Brgy. (abbreviation)

Borrowed from Tagalog barangay.

barangay (plural barangays)

1. (Philippines) The smallest local government unit in the Philippines, a subdivision of a city or municipality.
2. (Philippines) Alternative form of balangay (“type of boat”)

• barrio

• balanghai

From older balangay; a type of wooden watercraft used by a group of Austronesian people when they migrated to the Philippines.

• Hyphenation: ba‧ran‧gay
• IPA^(key): /baɾaŋˈɡai/, [baɾaŋˈɡaɪ̯]

barangay

1. The smallest local government unit in the Philippines, a subdivision of a city or municipality.

   Synonyms: balangay, baryo

From older balangay, from balangay; a type of wooden watercraft used by a group of Austronesian people when they migrated to the Philippines.

• Hyphenation: ba‧ran‧gay
• IPA^(key): /baɾaŋˈɡaj/, [bʌ.ɾ̪ʌŋˈɡaɪ̯]

barangay

1. The smallest local government unit in the Philippines, a subdivision of a city or municipality.

• balangay, baryo

From older balangay; a type of wooden watercraft used by a group of Austronesian people when they migrated to the Philippines.

• IPA^(key): /baraŋˈɡaj/

barangay

1. The smallest local government unit in the Philippines, a subdivision of a city or municipality.

barangay

1. boat

From Tagalog barangay.

barangay m (plural barangayes)

1. (Philippines) barangay

• “barangay”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

• baranggay
• Brgy. – abbreviation

From balangay (“a type of wooden watercraft Austronesian people used when they migrated to the Philippines”), most likely reborrowed from Spanish barangay where the /ŋ/ sound developed into a /ŋɡ/ sound. Doublet of balangay.

• Hyphenation: ba‧ran‧gay
• IPA^(key): /baɾaŋˈɡaj/, [bɐ.ɾɐŋˈɡaɪ̯]

barangáy (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜇᜅ᜔ᜄᜌ᜔)

1. barangay (the smallest administrative division in the Philippines, a subdivision of cities and municipalities)
2. (historical) local polity or settlement during the Philippine precolonial period

• baryo
• tanod

• “barangay”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2018