balagtasan
Tagalog
Etymology
From balagtas + -an. Sense "form of debate", from Balagtas + -an (supposedly after Francisco Balagtas).
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: ba‧lag‧ta‧san
- IPA(key): /ˌbalaɡˈtasan/, [ˌba.lɐɡˈta.sɐn]
Noun
bálagtásan
- balagtasan (a Philippine form of debate done with poetic verse)
- direct way across to a place
Derived terms
- makipagbalagtasan
See also
- debate
- pagtatalo
Further reading
- “balagtasan”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2018
balagtasan on the Tagalog Wikipedia.Wikipedia tl