Bisayan

American  

[bih-sahy-uhn] / bɪˈsaɪ ən /

noun

plural

Bisayans,

plural

Bisayan

1. Visayan.

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Bisayan British  

/ bɪˈsɑːjən /

noun

1. a variant of Visayan

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Example Sentences

In Tagalog and Bisayan the letter “n” is dropped and the word is pronounced “be-lat′-ic.”

From Negritos of Zambales by Reed, William Allan

In this way the Bisayan, the Tagálog, and the Ilocano were soon mastered.

From A History of the Philippines by Barrows, David P.

In the environs of Basey the Ignatius bean grows in remarkable abundance, as it also does in the south of Samar and in some other of the Bisayan islands.

From The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes by Craig, Austin

I find in a Bisayan dictionary that this substance is employed by the people of the Philippine Islands for staining their teeth red.

From The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants by Marsden, William

He understood the Bisayan language very well, and consequently learned the one peculiar to that island in a short time.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 21 of 55 1624 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