Borrowed fromCebuanobakwit,[1] fromEnglishevacuate.
bakwit (pluralbakwits)
- (Philippines) Anevacuee.
2007,Checkpoints and chokepoints, Mindanao Studies Consortium Foundation, page178:Evacuees queuing sparked tension when some aid agencies claimed that non-bakwits in communities hosting the evacuees, took advantage of relief goods by signing up as the displaced.
- ^Jowel Canuday (2009),The Power of the Displaced, Ateneo de Manila University Press, pages54-55, 152-153: “The term Bakwit[sic] is a visayan[sic] adaptation of the English words evacuate and evacuee.”
Borrowed fromEnglishevacuate, fromLatinēvacuāre.
bakwit (Badlit spellingᜊᜃ᜔ᜏᜒᜆ᜔)
- toevacuate; toflee
bakwit (Badlit spellingᜊᜃ᜔ᜏᜒᜆ᜔)
- anevacuee
Borrowed fromEnglishevacuate.
- IPA(key): /baˈkwit/ [bɐˈkwit]
- Hyphenation:bak‧wit
bakwít (Kur-itan spellingᜊᜃ᜔ᜏᜒᜆ᜔)
- anevacuee
bakwít (Baybayin spellingᜊᜃ᜔ᜏᜒᜆ᜔)
- defective inpronunciation(in one's speech)
bakwít (Baybayin spellingᜊᜃ᜔ᜏᜒᜆ᜔)
- alternative form ofbakwet
