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buot

Pronunciation: /buˈʔot/

“buot” is a Cebuano word. Its 18 meanings in English:

noun

  1. will, volition; desire
  2. reason; sanity
  3. disposition; behavior; social conduct
  4. mind, thoughts
  5. consciousness, awareness
  6. mood, feeling
  7. skill; experience
  8. worth; thing worthy of being loved
  9. the Philippine pygmy squirrel (Exilisciurus concinnus)

verb

  1. would like to; want to
  2. to have one's way; for one to decide how something is to be
  3. to judge, dictate how things should be
  4. to do something freely without restraint, to their heart's content
  5. to be skilled in something
  6. to agree, concede
  7. to confine in a narrow place such that no air can get in or out

adjective

  1. airless; without ventilation or fresh air
  2. concentrated (of smoke or heat, and not fresh air)

Etymology

Compare Central Bikol buot, Tagalog bait (“kindness”). See similarities with the semantics of Tagalog loob.

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