different between barangay vs district

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

From French district, from Medieval Latin districtus (“a district within which the lord may distrain, also jurisdiction”), from Latin districtus, past participle of distringere (“to draw asunder, compel, distrain”), from dis- (“apart”) +? stringere (“to draw tight, strain”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: d?s?tr?kt, IPA^(key): /?d?st??kt/
• Hyphenation: dis?trict

Noun

district (plural districts)

1. An administrative division of an area.

   the Soho district of London

2. An area or region marked by some distinguishing feature.

   the Lake District in Cumbria

3. (Britain) An administrative division of a county without the status of a borough.

   South Oxfordshire District Council

Derived terms

Related terms

• districtual

Translations

Verb

district (third-person singular simple present districts, present participle districting, simple past and past participle districted)

1. (transitive) To divide into administrative or other districts.

Derived terms

• redistrict

Translations

Adjective

district (comparative more district, superlative most district)

1. (obsolete) rigorous; stringent; harsh
   • 1563, John Foxe, Actes and Monuments

     punishing with the rod of district severity

Further reading

• district in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• district in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• district at OneLook Dictionary Search

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch district, from Middle French district, from Medieval Latin districtus (“a district within which the lord may distrain, also jurisdiction”), from Latin districtus, past participle of distring?, distringere (“draw asunder, compel, distrain”), from dis- (“apart”) + string?, stringere (“draw tight, strain”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?s?tr?kt/
• Hyphenation: dis?trict
• Rhymes: -?kt

Noun

district n (plural districten, diminutive districtje n)

1. district

Derived terms

• kiesdistrict

Descendants

• Afrikaans: distrik
• ? Indonesian: distrik

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dis.t?ikt/, /dis.t?ik/

Noun

district m (plural districts)

1. district

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from French district, from Medieval Latin districtus (“a district within which the lord may distrain, also jurisdiction”), from Latin districtus, past participle of distring?, distringere (“draw asunder, compel, distrain”), from dis- (“apart”) + string?, stringere (“draw tight, strain”).

Noun

district m (plural districts)

1. (Jersey) district

Romanian

Etymology

From French district

Noun

district n (plural districte)

1. district

Declension