bulakan

See also: Bulakan

Cebuano

Alternative forms

Etymology

bulak +‎ -an

Pronunciation
  • Hyphenation: bu‧la‧kan

Noun

bulakan

  1. the giant potato (Ipomoea mauritiana)

Tagalog

Etymology

From bulak +‎ -an.

Pronunciation
  • (Standard Tagalog)
    • IPA(key): /buˈlakan/ [bʊˈla.xɐn] (“cotton plantation”, noun; “to apply cotton”, verb)
      • Rhymes: -akan
    • IPA(key): /bulaˈkan/ [bʊ.lɐˈxan] (“species of flowering vine”, noun)
      • Rhymes: -an
  • Syllabification: bu‧la‧kan

Noun

bulakan (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜎᜃᜈ᜔)

  1. cotton plantation

Verb

bulakan (complete binulakan, progressive binubulakan, contemplative bubulakan, Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜎᜃᜈ᜔)

  1. to apply cotton on

Conjugation
Verb conjugation for bulakan
Affix Root word Trigger
-an bulak object
Aspect Imperative
Infinitive Complete Progressive Contemplative
bulakan binulakan binubulakan
inabulakan1		 bubulakan
abulakan1		 bulaki1
1 Dialectal use only.

Noun

bulakán (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜎᜃᜈ᜔)

  1. Decalobanthus peltatus (a species of flowering vine)

See also

Further reading
  • “bulakan”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
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