buyo

From Tagalog buyo (“betel”).

buyo (uncountable)

1. (Philippines) betel

• buoy

• Hyphenation: bu‧yo

buyo

1. the areca palm (Areca catechu); a species of palm which grows in much of the tropical Pacific, Asia, and parts of east Africa
2. the areca nut

buyo

1. Rōmaji transcription of ぶよ

From Tagalog buyo.

• Rhymes: -uʝo
• Syllabification: bu‧yo

buyo m (plural buyos)

1. (Philippines) a mixture of areca nut, betel pepper leaves and shell lime, used for betelnut chewing in the Philippines and other Asian countries around the Pacific

   Synonyms: bonga, betel

• “buyo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
• Venancio M. de Abella (1874) Vade-Mecum Filipino ó manual de la conversacion familiar Español-Tagalog‎, 12.ᵃ edition (overall work in Spanish and Tagalog), Escolta, Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier, page 113

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈbujo/ [ˈbu.jo]
• Rhymes: -ujo
• Syllabification: bu‧yo

buyo (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜌᜓ)

1. betel pepper (plant and leaves)

   Synonym: ikmo

• → Spanish: buyo

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /buˈjo/ [bʊˈjo]
• Rhymes: -o
• Syllabification: bu‧yo

buyó (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜌᜓ)

1. condition of being absorbed or engrossed (in what one is doing)
2. seduction

   Synonyms: upat, pang-uupat, sulsol, panunulsol

buyó (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜌᜓ)

1. engrossed; absorbed (in what one is doing)

   Synonym: nabuyo

• “buyo”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018