Waray Words for Nature and Weather with Tagalog Translations
38 nature & weather in Waray, each with its Tagalog equivalent and an English gloss. Entries come from our phrasebook, compiled from published references rather than produced by the translation engine. Waray entries are marked pending review until a native speaker has confirmed them.
Nature & weather
Sun, rain, sea and mountain.
| Waray | Tagalog | English |
|---|---|---|
| Adlawpending review | Araw | SunIlocano 'init' is the sun; Tagalog 'init' is heat. Related idea, different part of speech, and machine translation routinely mixes the two. |
| Bulanpending review | Buwan | MoonSeven of the eight kept 'bulan'; Tagalog alone shifted the l to w. The same word means 'month' in all of them. |
| Bitoonpending review | Bituin | Star |
| Uranpending review | Ulan | RainIlocano is alone here. 'Tudo' shares nothing with the ulan/uran the other seven use. |
| Dagatpending review | Dagat | Sea |
| Bukidpending review | Bundok | MountainTwo traps at once. Ilocano 'bantay' is a mountain; in Tagalog it is a guard. Visayan 'bukid' is a mountain; in Tagalog 'bukid' is a field or farm. |
| Balaypending review | Bahay | House |
| Kalayopending review | Apoy | FireVisayan 'kalayo' is fire; Tagalog 'kalayo' would be parsed as 'distance'. The Luzon languages all keep apoy/apuy. |
| Salogpending review | Ilog | RiverWaray and Bikol 'salog' looks close to Tagalog 'ilog' but is a separate root — and in Cebuano 'salog' is a floor. |
| Tunapending review | Lupa | Land, soilSix unrelated roots for the ground under your feet, and Ilocano 'daga' collides head-on with Tagalog, where it means a rat. |
| Kahoypending review | Puno | Tree |
| Bukadpending review | Bulaklak | FlowerIlocano 'sabong' is a flower. In Tagalog 'sabong' is cockfighting — an unusually large gap for two languages spoken on the same island. |
| Batopending review | Bato | Stone |
| Hanginpending review | Hangin | Wind |
| Langitpending review | Langit | SkyPangasinan 'tawen' is the sky; Ilocano 'tawen' is a year. Two Northern Luzon languages, one word, no shared meaning. |
| Linogpending review | Lindol | Earthquake |
| Bagyopending review | Bagyo | Typhoon |
| kaguranganpending review | kakahuyan | Forest |
| ablongpending review | patpat | Stick (of wood) |
| bungapending review | bunga | Fruit |
| binhipending review | binhi | Seed |
| dahonpending review | dahon | Leaf |
| gamotpending review | ugat | Root |
| panitpending review | balat ng puno | Bark (of tree) |
| banwapending review | damo | Grass |
| danawpending review | lawa | Lake |
| dagatpending review | dagat | Sea (as in ocean) |
| buhanginpending review | buhangin | Sand |
| alikabokpending review | alikabok | Dust |
| tunapending review | lupa | Earth (as in soil) |
| panganuronpending review | alapaap | Cloud |
| burongpending review | hamog | Fog |
| hanginpending review | hangin | Wind (as in breeze) |
| niyebepending review | niyebe | Snow |
| yelopending review | yelo | Ice |
| usokpending review | usok | Smoke |
| abopending review | abo | Ash |
| adlawpending review | araw | Day (daytime) |
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- Waray Numbers17
- Waray Days, Months and Time Words19
- Waray Family and People Words22
- Waray Food and Eating Words28
- Waray Directions and Travel Words13
- Waray Emergency and Health Phrases12
- Waray Words for Parts of the Body26
- Waray Adjectives and Describing Words33
- Waray Everyday Verbs50
- Waray Months of the Year12
- Waray Words for Animals17
Sources
- Waray phrasebook — Wikivoyage. Accessed 2026-08-13.
- Appendix: Waray-Waray Swadesh list — Wiktionary. Accessed 2026-08-17.
- Tagalog phrasebook — Wikivoyage. Accessed 2026-08-13.
- Appendix: Austronesian Swadesh lists — Wiktionary. Accessed 2026-08-17.