bakwit

Meaning

Noun

Origin

  • Borrowed from Cebuano bakwit
  • {{cite-book
  • |year=2009
  • |title=The Power of the Displaced
  • |author=Jowel Canuday
  • |author-link=Jowel Canuday
  • |passage=The term Bakwit is a visayan adaptation of the English words evacuate and evacuee.
  • |publisher=Ateneo de Manila University Press
  • |page=54-55, 152-153
  • , from English evacuate.

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