Buling-Buling

See also: bulingbuling

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• bolingboling — obsolete, Spanish-based orthography
• Bulingbuling, bulingbuling
• buling-buling

Etymology

Reduplication of buling.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˌbuliŋ ˈbuliŋ/ [ˌbu.lɪm ˈbu.lɪŋ]
• Rhymes: -uliŋ
• Syllabification: Bu‧ling-Bu‧ling

Proper noun

Buling-Buling (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜎᜒᜅ᜔ᜊᜓᜎᜒᜅ᜔) (ecclesiastical)

1. custom of throwing water on people (on the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist on April 24^th)

Derived terms

• magbuling-buling

 

Related terms

• bulingin

Further reading

• “Buling-Buling” at KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino‎^[1], Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2021
• “Buling-Buling”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Serrano-Laktaw, Pedro (1914) Diccionario tagálog-hispano, Ateneo de Manila, page 157.
• Noceda, Fr. Juan José de, Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves‎^[2] (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier