bakwit
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Cebuano bakwit,[1] from English evacuate.
Noun
[edit]bakwit (plural bakwits)
- (Philippines) An evacuee.
- 2007, Checkpoints and chokepoints, Mindanao Studies Consortium Foundation, page 178:
- Evacuees queuing sparked tension when some aid agencies claimed that non-bakwits in communities hosting the evacuees, took advantage of relief goods by signing up as the displaced.
References
[edit]- ^ Jowel Canuday (2009) The Power of the Displaced, Ateneo de Manila University Press, pages 54-55, 152-153: “The term Bakwit[sic] is a visayan[sic] adaptation of the English words evacuate and evacuee.”
Cebuano
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English evacuate, from Latin ēvacuāre.
Pronunciation
[edit]- Hyphenation: bak‧wit
Verb
[edit]bakwit
Noun
[edit]bakwit
- an evacuee
Descendants
[edit]- → English: bakwit
Quotations
[edit]- For quotations using this term, see Citations:bakwit.
Derived terms
[edit]Tagalog
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /bakˈwit/ [bɐkˈwit]
- Rhymes: -it
- Syllabification: bak‧wit
Etymology 1
[edit]Adjective
[edit]bakwít (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜃ᜔ᜏᜒᜆ᜔)
- defective in pronunciation (in one's speech)
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]bakwít (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜃ᜔ᜏᜒᜆ᜔)
- Alternative form of bakwet
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