watawat

Amis

Etymology

From Proto-Austronesian *watawat. Compare Tagalog watawat.

Noun

watawat

1. flag waving back and forth

Tagalog

Etymology

From Proto-Austronesian *watawat (“wave, flutter (as a flag)”). Compare Amis watawat.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /waˈtawat/ [wɐˈt̪aː.wɐt̪̚]
• Rhymes: -awat
• Syllabification: wa‧ta‧wat

Noun

watawat (Baybayin spelling ᜏᜆᜏᜆ᜔)

1. flag; banner; standard; ensign

   Synonyms: bandila, bandera, pindol, estandarte, tung-ol

2. (obsolete) sign put up (such as a cloth or a woven mat) so no one touches what was marked

   Synonym: tanda

   May watawat yaong bukid.

   That sown land has a sign (to avoid farming on said land).

Derived terms

• iwatawat
• magwatawat
• watawatan

 

Further reading

• “watawat”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Noceda, Fr. Juan José de, Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves‎^[1] (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier
• Santos, Fr. Domingo de los (1835) Tomas Oliva, editor, Vocabulario de la lengua tagala: primera, y segunda parte.‎^[2] (in Spanish), La imprenta nueva de D. Jose Maria Dayot
• San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero‎^[3], La Noble Villa de Pila, page 550: “Señal) Vatavat (pp} queſe pone ꝑa que nayde caçe alli ni ſiembre”
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*watawat”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI