balwarte
Tagalog
Etymology
Borrowing from Spanish baluarte.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: bal‧war‧te
- IPA(key): /balˈwaɾte/, [bɐlˈwaɾ.te]
Noun
balwarte (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜎ᜔ᜏᜇ᜔ᜆᜒ)
- bulwark; bastion; stronghold
- 1997, Renato Constantino, Ang bagong lumipas, Volume 1, →ISBN, page 96:
- Hindi nagkataon lamang na dumanas ang mga lalawigang ito ng maraming pag-aalsang agraryo at naging malalakas na balwarte ng Rebolusyong Filipino.
- It is not only a coincidence that the provinces experienced many agrarian revolts and became strongholds of the Philippine Revolution.
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See also
- kuta
- muog