balangay

Cebuano

Pronunciation
  • Hyphenation: ba‧la‧ngay

Etymology 1

From Austronesian.

Noun

balangay

  1. a type of wooden watercraft used by a group of Austronesian people when they migrated to the Philippines

Etymology 2

Named after the wooden watercraft.

Noun

balangay

  1. (obsolete) a barangay; the smallest administrative district in the Philippines, headed by a barangay captain

Synonyms

Tagalog

Etymology

From Austronesian, also the origin of barangay.

Pronunciation
  • Hyphenation: ba‧la‧ngay

Noun

balangay

  1. a type of wooden watercraft used by Austronesian peoples when they migrated to the Philippines.
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