butuan

See also: Butuan

Tagalog

Alternative forms

Etymology

Ultimately a variant of butuhan, possibly via earlier variant buthuan (“a seedy type of banana”) with elision of /h/, from a metathesis of but-uhan (“bony; seedy”), from but-o +‎ -han, where the root is an older variant of buto (“bone; seed”). Compare Botolan Sambal botoan (“species of banana”), Kapampangan butulan (“a thing that has bones; also, a species of bananas”), Hanunoo but-ulan (“species of tree”), Asi buthuan (“banana with a pleasant taste and lots of hard flat black seeds”), Aklanon but-ohan (“seedy banana”). By surface analysis, buto +‎ -an.

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /buˈtuʔan/ [bʊˈt̪uː.ʔɐn̪], /butuˈʔan/ [bʊ.t̪ʊˈʔan̪]
  • Rhymes: -uʔan, -an
  • Syllabification: bu‧tu‧an
  • Homophone: Butuan

Noun

butuan or butuán (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜆᜓᜀᜈ᜔)

  1. Musa acuminata subsp. errans (a species of banana with many-seeded fruits)
    Synonyms: balayang, saging-matsing, saging-tsonggo, saging ng unggoy, (Mindoro, Quezon, Marinduque) pakil, (Quezon) alinsanay, (Quezon) pik-iw, saging-na-ligaw
  2. the seedy fruit of this plant

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