durungawan
Tagalog
Alternative forms
- dorong̃auan, durung̃avan — obsolete, Spanish-based spelling
- dudungawan
Etymology
From dungaw + -an, from an initial reduplication of dungaw with allophonic lenition of /d/ to /ɾ/ between vowels.
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /duɾuˈŋawan/ [d̪ʊ.ɾʊˈŋaː.wɐn̪], /ˌduɾuŋaˈwan/ [ˌd̪uː.ɾʊ.ŋɐˈwan̪]
- Rhymes: -awan, -an
- Syllabification: du‧ru‧nga‧wan
Noun
durungawan or dúrungawán (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜓᜇᜓᜅᜏᜈ᜔)
- (literary, archaic) window
- lookout point provided with railing or window-like structure
- Synonyms: mirador, banayaban
References
- “durungawan”, 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 596: “Ventana) Durung̃avan (pp) el gueco, ſalẽ de dung̃ao el paſado y este”