balwarte
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Tagalog[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Spanish baluarte. Doublet of bulebar and bulebard.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /balˈwaɾte/ [bɐlˈwaɾ.tɛ]
- Rhymes: -aɾte
- Syllabification: bal‧war‧te
Noun[edit]
balwarte (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜎ᜔ᜏᜇ᜔ᜆᜒ)
- bulwark; bastion; stronghold
- 1997, Renato Constantino, Ang bagong lumipas, Volume 1[1], →ISBN, page 96:
- Hindi nagkataon lamang na dumanas ang mga lalawigang ito ng maraming pag-aalsang agraryo at naging malalakas na balwarte ng Rebolusyong Filipino.
- It is not only a coincidence that the provinces experienced many agrarian revolts and became strongholds of the Philippine Revolution.
See also[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “balwarte”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
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