bulakan

See also: Bulakan

Cebuano

Alternative forms

• buwakan

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/ [bʊˈlaː.xɐn̪] (“cotton plantation”, noun; “to apply cotton”, verb)
    • Rhymes: -akan
  • IPA^(key): /bulaˈkan/ [bʊ.lɐˈxan̪] (“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

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

Verb conjugation for bulakan

Noun

bulakán (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜎᜃᜈ᜔)

1. Decalobanthus peltatus (a species of flowering vine)

See also

• Bulacan

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• kaluban