buyo

From Spanish buyo (“betel”).

buyo (uncountable)

1. (Philippines) betel

• Oyub, bouy, buoy

• Hyphenation: bu‧yo

buyo

1. the areca palm (Areca catechu); a species of palm which grows in much of the tropical Pacific, Asia, and parts of east Africa
2. the areca nut

buyo

1. Rōmaji transcription of ぶよ

From Tagalog buyo.

• Rhymes: -uʝo
• Syllabification: bu‧yo

buyo m (plural buyos)

1. (Philippines) a mixture of areca nut, betel pepper leaves and shell lime, used for betelnut chewing in the Philippines and other Asian countries around the Pacific

   Synonyms: bonga, betel

• → English: buyo
• → Tagalog: buyo

• “buyo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
• Abella, Venancio María de (1874), Vade-Mecum Filipino ó manual de la conversacion familiar Español-Tagalog. Seguido de un curioso Vocabulario de Modismos Manileños., 12.ᵃ edition (overall work in Philippine Spanish and Tagalog), Escolta, Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier, á cargo de C. Miralles., page 113

Borrowed from Philippine Spanish buyo, possibly from Cebuano buyo, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buyuq (“leaf of a vine chewed with betel nut, betel pepper: Piper betle”). Compare Central Bikol buyo, Aklanon buyo, Tausug buyu', and Chamorro buyu.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈbujo/ [ˈbuː.jo]
• Rhymes: -ujo
• Syllabification: bu‧yo

buyo (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜌᜓ)

1. betel pepper (plant and leaves)

   Synonym: ikmo

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /buˈjo/ [bʊˈjo]
• Rhymes: -o
• Syllabification: bu‧yo

buyó (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜌᜓ)

1. condition of being absorbed or engrossed (in what one is doing)
2. seduction

   Synonyms: upat, pang-uupat, sulsol, panunulsol

buyó (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜌᜓ)

1. engrossed; absorbed (in what one is doing)

   Synonym: nabuyo

• “buyo”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*buyuq”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI