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

The most general are the Tagál and Bisayan.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 29 of 55 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 Various

He had made a collection of some fifty Bisayan riddles and presented a brief paper regarding them at the Anthropological Conference held at Baguio, under my direction, on May 12–14, 1908.

From A Little Book of Filipino Riddles by Starr, Frederick

The father provincial established religious in the island of Panay, which, as it was of the Bisayan language, he was not willing to abandon.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 23 of 55 1629-30 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

That confraternity has since been established in the city of Zebu, and has in the same manner been extended into the Bisayan provinces.

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

The expedition charted the Strait of San Bernardino, the coasts of several of the Bisayan Islands, and Mindanao.

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