# buwan
## Cebuano
### Etymology

See bulan.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbuwan/ [ˈbu.wɐn̪]
* Hyphenation: bu‧wan

### Noun

búwan (Badlit spelling ᜊᜓᜏᜈ᜔)
* (dialectal, Metro Cebu, Bohol, Leyte) Alternative form of bulan
* ring or circle where the can is placed or made to stand in bato lata

### Verb

búwan (Badlit spelling ᜊᜓᜏᜈ᜔)
* in bato lata, in an event of a standing, to use the buwan as an attack line

## Porohanon
### Etymology

From Proto-Bisayan *bulan, from Proto-Central Philippine *bulan, from Proto-Philippine *bulan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN.

### Noun

buwan
* moon
* month

## Tagalog
### Alternative forms

* bouan, bovan — obsolete, Spanish-based orthography
* buan — obsolete
* b'wan — contraction, uncommon
* bwan — superseded, pre-2007

### Etymology

Elision of /l/ from Proto-Philippine *bulan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulan, from Proto-Austronesian *bulaN. Compare Ilocano bulan, Pangasinan bulan, Kapampangan bulan, Cebuano bulan, Hiligaynon bulan, Waray-Waray bulan, Maranao bolan, Indonesian bulan, Sundanese bulan, Javanese ꦉꦩ꧀ꦧꦸꦭꦤ꧀ (rembulan), Malay bulan, Fijian vula, Malagasy volana, and Niuean pula. Doublet of bulan.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /buˈan/ [ˈbwan̪]
** Rhymes: -an
* (now dialectal, Batangas, Rizal, Marinduque, alternative) IPA: /ˈbuan/ [ˈbuː.ɐn̪] (now uncommon)
** Rhymes: -uan
* Syllabification: bu‧wan

### Noun

buwán (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜏᜈ᜔)
* moon
    Synonym: (neologism) bulan
* month
    Synonyms: (obsolete) manilong, (obsolete) maningas

#### Usage notes

* Today, in some parts of Batangas, sense “month” is pronounced as búwan ( /ˈbuan/) while “moon” is pronounced as buwán (/buˈan/). Both senses were pronounced búwan around the 19th century according to the Spanish dictionaries but now both buwán in Standard Tagalog.

#### Derived terms

* bagong buwan
* bubuwanin
* buwan-buwan
* buwanan
* buwanang dalaw
* buwang kabilugan
* buwang palaba
* buwang patunaw
* dagang buwan
* hugis-buwan
* kabilugan ng buwan
* kabuwanan
* kalahatian-ng-buwan
* patay ang buwan
* sambuwan
* suntok sa buwan
* tunaw na buwan

#### See also

* gasuklay
* kabilugan
* kalabit
* katapusan
* katunawan
* Kulalaying
* laib
* malakarit
* manilong
* maningas
* Mayari
* mulangdilim
* sangmukti
* tagdilim
* taon

### Further reading

* “buwan”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
* Serrano-Laktaw, Pedro (1914) Diccionario tagálog-hispano, Ateneo de Manila, page 139.
* Noceda, Fr. Juan José de, Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves‎ (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier
* Santos, Fr. Domingo de los (1835) Tomas Oliva, editor, Vocabulario de la lengua tagala: primera, y segunda parte.‎ (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, La Noble Villa de Pila
** page 395: “Luna) Bovan (pp) L. del çielo”
** page 419: “Mes) Bovan (pp) de los doce del año”
* Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*bulaN”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI