banawan

• banauan — obsolete, Spanish-based spelling
• ban-awan — obsolete

From banaw (“seeing from a high or distant point”) +‎ -an, literally “object/place for farseeing”. Compare Hiligaynon ban-awan (“magic mirror”).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /baˈnawan/ [bɐˈn̪aː.wɐn̪]
• Rhymes: -awan
• Syllabification: ba‧na‧wan

banawan (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜈᜏᜈ᜔)

1. crystal ball (globe used to foretell the future)

   Synonym: bolang kristal

2. (obsolete) vantage point; lookout

   Synonym: tanawan

• “banawan”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2025
• “banawan”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018
• Noceda, Fr. Juan José de; Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860), Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves, y coordinado por…, ultimamente aumentado y corregido por varios religiosos de la Orden de Agustinos calzados.‎^[1] (overall work in Spanish and Classical Tagalog), Manila: Ramírez y Giraudier.
• San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613), Vocabulario de lengua tagala. El romance castellano puesto primero. Primera, y segunda parte.‎^[2] (overall work in Early Modern Spanish and Classical Tagalog), as directed by Gov. Gen. Juan de Silva, Pila, Laguna: La noble Villa de Pila, por Tomás Pinpin y Domingo Loag., page 424: “Mirador) Banavan (pp) de doſe deſcubre mucha tierra, ſale de banau”