butete

== Tagalog == === Alternative forms === botete === Etymology === From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *butiti. Compare Kapampangan butiti, Maranao botiti & Sangir butiti. === Pronunciation === (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /buˈteteʔ/ [bʊˈt̪ɛː.t̪ɛʔ] (“tadpole; big-bellied person”, noun; “big-bellied”, adjective) Rhymes: -eteʔ IPA(key): /buˈtete/ [bʊˈt̪ɛː.t̪ɛ] (“pufferfish”, noun) Rhymes: -ete Syllabification: bu‧te‧te === Noun === butetè (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜆᜒᜆᜒ) tadpole Synonyms: ulo-ulo, butilaw (figurative) big-bellied person Synonym: buteteng-laot === Noun === butete (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜆᜒᜆᜒ) pufferfish lunartail puffer (Lagocephalus lunaris) spiny spiderflower (Cleome spinosa) === Adjective === butetè (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜆᜒᜆᜒ) (figurative) big-bellied; with a big stomach (of a person) ==== Derived terms ==== buteteng-laot ==== See also ==== buyunin pusunin === Further reading === “butete”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018 Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*butiti”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI