barangay

American  

[bahr-uhng-gahy] / ˌbɑr əŋˈgaɪ /

noun

barangays plural

1. in the Philippines, a village or community constituting a small administrative unit of local government.

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• inter-barangay
  adjective

Inflected Forms

Nouns

• barangays
  plural

Example Sentences

You don't have to walk far in Metro Manila to find poor neighbourhoods, or barangay as they are known.

From BBC • Mar. 29, 2023

“Every barangay had specialty cooks who were called upon during happy occasions like fiestas and weddings. It’s just a matter of harnessing this cultural tradition.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2022

The barangay kapitan, an elected official at the head of the community, had been compiling lists of local users.

From The Guardian • Jun. 10, 2018

Ferdie had been napping on a bench outside a shop in the barangay.

From BBC • Dec. 2, 2016

Governor Don Juan Halimao, Don Diego Caya, Domingo Sati, chiefs and lords of barangay of the village of Tableco, and several of their timaguas.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 10 of 55 1597-1599 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Robertson, James Alexander