Dictionaries › Tagalog

buko

Pronunciation: /ˈbuko/

“buko” is a Tagalog word. Its 10 meanings in English:

noun

  1. young coconut fruit
  2. coconut water
  3. bud (of a flower)
  4. node (of bamboo, sugar cane, etc.)
  5. knuckle; joint (of one's finger or toe)
  6. knot (of a tree or lumber)
  7. protuberance of the ankle bone
  8. finding of one's fault to disappoint another

adjective

  1. unripe (of fruits)
  2. disappointed; unsuccessful

Etymology

Compare Kapampangan buku.

Keep exploring: in the interactive dictionary every word of a definition is a link. Open “buko” there

More Tagalog words

About this dictionary

The Tagalog dictionary on Glottosphere has 24,033 entries with a page. Browse the Tagalog dictionary.

Definitions are from Wiktionary, extracted by Kaikki.org, and are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.