buthuan

• bothoan, botohan, bot-ohan — obsolete, Spanish-based spelling
• butuhan, but-uhan

From metathesis of but-uhan (“bony; seedy”), from but-o (earlier variant of buto (“bone; seed”)) +‎ -han. Doublet of butuhan and butuan.

• (Standard Tagalog)
  • IPA^(key): /butˈhuʔan/ [bʊt̪ˈhuː.ʔɐn̪]
    • Rhymes: -uʔan
  • IPA^(key): /buthuˈʔan/ [bʊt̪.hʊˈʔan̪] (obsolete)
• Syllabification: but‧hu‧an

buthuan (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜆ᜔ᜑᜓᜀᜈ᜔) (obsolete)

1. alternative form of butuan
2. any fruit that has a lot of seeds

buthuan (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜆ᜔ᜑᜓᜀᜈ᜔) (obsolete)

1. alternative form of butuhan
2. (figurative) strong

   Synonyms: matibay, malakas, matatag

   lalaking buthuan ― strong man

3. (figurative) undercooked; underdone (such as of rice)

   Synonyms: bantilaw, alibutdan, butuhan

   Buthuan ang pagsasaing ng kanin.

   The cooking of rice was underdone.

• 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.