different between barangay vs municipality

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 French municipalité (Edmund Burke); synchronically analyzable as municipal +? -ity.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /mj??n?s??pæl?ti/

Noun

municipality (plural municipalities)

1. A district with a government that typically encloses no other governed districts; a borough, city, or incorporated town or village.
2. The governing body of such a district.

Related terms

Translations

Scots

Etymology

Borrowed from English municipality.

Noun

municipality (plural municipalities)

1. municipality