Buling-Buling

See also: bulingbuling

Tagalog

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Buling-Buling Festival

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• bolingboling — obsolete, Spanish-based spelling
• Bulingbuling, bulingbuling
• buling-buling

Etymology

Reduplication of buling.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˌbuliŋ ˈbuliŋ/ [ˌbuː.lɪm ˈbuː.lɪŋ]
• Rhymes: -uliŋ
• Syllabification: Bu‧ling-Bu‧ling

Proper noun

Buling-Buling (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜎᜒᜅ᜔ᜊᜓᜎᜒᜅ᜔) (ecclesiastical)

1. custom of throwing water on people (on the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist on April 24^th)

Derived terms

• magbuling-buling

Related terms

• bulingin

Further reading

• “Buling-Buling”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2025
• “Buling-Buling”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018.
• Serrano Laktaw, Pedro (1914), Diccionario tagálog-hispano (overall work in Tagalog and Spanish), Intramuros, Manila: Ateneo de Manila., page 157
• Noceda, Fr. Juan José de; Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860), Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves, y coordinado por…, ultimamente aumentado y corregido por varios religiosos de la Orden de Agustinos calzados.‎ (overall work in Spanish and Classical Tagalog), Manila: Ramírez y Giraudier.
• Baroja, Felipe Mayor (2012), Diksyunaryong Batangueño‎ (in Tagalog), Batangas, Philippines: Veritas Printing Press, Inc., page 74