different between barangay vs barrio

English

Alternative forms

• balangay

Etymology

Borrowed from Tagalog barangay.

Noun

barangay (plural barangays)

1. The smallest local government unit in the Philippines, a subdivision of a city or municipality.
2. Alternative form of balangay (“type of boat”)

Synonyms

• barrio

Related terms

• balanghai

Bikol Central

Etymology

From older balangay; a type of wooden watercraft used by a group of Austronesian people when they migrated to the Philippines.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba.ra???aj/

Noun

barangay

1. The smallest local government unit in the Philippines, a subdivision of a city or municipality.

Synonyms

• balangay, baryo

Cebuano

Etymology

From older balangay, from balangay; a type of wooden watercraft used by a group of Austronesian people when they migrated to the Philippines.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba.ra???aj/

Noun

barangay

1. The smallest local government unit in the Philippines, a subdivision of a city or municipality.

Synonyms

• balangay, baryo

Hiligaynon

Etymology

From older balangay; a type of wooden watercraft used by a group of Austronesian people when they migrated to the Philippines.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba.ra???aj/

Noun

barangay

1. The smallest local government unit in the Philippines, a subdivision of a city or municipality.

Maranao

Noun

barangay

1. boat

Spanish

Etymology

From Tagalog barangay.

Noun

barangay m (plural barangayes)

1. (Philippines) barangay

Tagalog

Etymology

From Old Tagalog ???? (balangay); a type of wooden watercraft used by a group of Austronesian people when they migrated to the Philippines.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba.ra???aj/

Abbreviations

• Brgy

Noun

barangay

1. The smallest local government unit in the Philippines, a subdivision of a city or municipality.
2. (historical) A local polity or settlement during the precolonial period of the Philippines

Synonyms

• barrio

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish barrio, that from Arabic ???????? (barriyy, “wild”).

Noun

barrio (plural barrios)

1. (in Venezuela or the Dominican Republic) A slum on the periphery of a major city; a low to middle-class neighborhood in a lesser city.
2. (in some Spanish-speaking countries) A municipality or subdivision of a municipality.
3. (in the Philippines) A barangay.
   • 2008, Resil B. Mojares, Beast in the Fields, Gémino H. Abad (editor), Upon Our Own Ground: Filipino short stories in English: 1956 to 1972, page 413,

     In the barrio, they talked excitedly about the wood-gatherer's discovery. There was so much pushing and quibbling over details that by the time the barrio had organized itself to set out for Salug to investigate, dusk had already fallen.

4. (informal, US) An area or neighborhood in a US city inhabited predominantly by Spanish-speakers or people of Hispanic origin.
   • 1993, Diego Vigil, The Established Gang, Scott Cummings, Daniel J. Monti (editors), Gangs: The Origins and Impact of Contemporary Youth Gangs in the United States, page 98,

     After World War II, its prospering working-class white residents moved to other, more upscale suburban developments, and by the 1950s the area had become an isolated ethnic enclave with its own barrio gang.

Classical Nahuatl

Alternative forms

• barrioh

Etymology

From Spanish barrio.

Noun

barrio

1. A district of an altepetl.

References

• Lockhart, James. (2001) Nahuatl as Written, Stanford University Press, p. 211.

Spanish

Etymology

From Andalusian Arabic ???????? (barriyy, “exterior”), referring to the outer, surrounding or less civilized or urbanized parts of a city, from classical Arabic ???????? (barriyy, “wild”). Compare Portuguese bairro, Catalan barri.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?barjo/, [?ba.rjo]

Noun

barrio m (plural barrios)

1. neighbourhood

   Synonym: vecindario

2. (Mexico) any neighbourhood of the original or ancient part of a city (usually excluding new growths after 30s, 40s or 50s, depending on the state or city)
3. (Venezuela, Dominican Republic) slum

Usage notes

• In Mexico it has postal value and is obligatory (or else the colonia or fraccionamiento is), alongside the postal code.

Derived terms

• barriada
• barrio bajo

Related terms

• barrial

Descendants

• ? Cebuano: baryo
• ? Classical Nahuatl: barrio
• ? English: barrio
• ? Maranao: bariyo

See also

• vecindad
• vecindario

Further reading

• “barrio” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
• barrio on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es