Bisayan

American  

[bih-sahy-uhn] / bɪˈsaɪ ən /

noun

• Bisayans,
  plural
• Bisayan
  plural

1. Visayan.

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Bisayan British  

/ bɪˈsɑːjən /

noun

1. a variant of Visayan

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• Bisayan
  plural
• Bisayans
  plural

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Example Sentences

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Bisayan Bisayans

He summoned all his Bisayan and Moro allies in order to build a fort, which he has built up the river, from palm-trees four brazas high.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 04 of 55 1576-1582 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 Beginning of the Nineteenth Century by James Alexander Robertson

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 David P. Barrows

Coming to the Philippine Islands in 1571, he acquired the Bisayan, Tagal, and Chinese languages, and spent many years in missionary labors among those peoples.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 06 of 55 1583-1588 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 James Alexander Robertson

The Bisayan islands, the rich Camarines, the island of Luzon, had, in Legaspi’s time, only a small fraction of their present great populations.

From A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows

The population among the Bisayan islands was quite surprisingly small, considering its present proportions.

From A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows

The Tagáls wore black as a sign of mourning; the Bisayans wore white, and shaved the head and eyebrows.

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

The civilized natives live almost solely on its coasts, and there are also Bisayans who differ in speech and manners from the Bicols in about the same degree that the latter do from the Tagalogs.

From The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes by Austin Craig

From this stock we may also derive the Malays of Sumatra and Java, of Borneo and Celebes, and the Tagals and Bisayans of the Philippine Islands.

From The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope by Henry Edward Crampton

He had professed the four vows, and was dear alike to Spaniards and to Bisayans.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 17 of 55 1609-1616 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 James Alexander Robertson

He was a missionary in Naujan of Mindoro, in Ternate, and among the Bisayans and Tagáls.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 22 of 55 1625-29 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 James Alexander Robertson

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