Waray Word Lists

297 Waray words and phrases grouped by topic, each with its Tagalog equivalent and an English gloss. Every entry comes from our curated phrasebook rather than the translation engine.

• Waray Polite Words and Phrases

  10 entries · Thank you, sorry, yes and no.

• Waray Numbers

  17 entries · Native numerals one to ten, which diverge sharply between the Luzon and Visayan languages.

• Waray Days, Months and Time Words

  19 entries · Today, tomorrow, day and night.

• Waray Family and People Words

  22 entries · Relationships and forms of address.

• Waray Food and Eating Words

  28 entries · Meals, ingredients and asking for them.

• Waray Directions and Travel Words

  13 entries · Left, right, here, there and how far.

• Waray Emergency and Health Phrases

  12 entries · The phrases worth knowing before you need them.

• Waray Words for Parts of the Body

  26 entries · Head to foot, where several of these languages share nothing at all.

• Waray Words for Nature and Weather

  38 entries · Sun, rain, sea and mountain.

• Waray Adjectives and Describing Words

  33 entries · Big, small, good, beautiful.

• Waray Everyday Verbs

  50 entries · The actions that carry most sentences.

• Waray Months of the Year

  12 entries · The Spanish-derived month names, and where the spellings part company.

• Waray Words for Animals

  17 entries · Everyday creatures, and several of the sharpest false friends on the site.

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