The story
- Spanish · borrowed fromBatangas
- English todayBatangas
From Spanish Batangas, from batangas, plural of batanga (“outrigger”), from Tagalog batang (“log”) + -a, after the wooden rafts found on the Calumpang River in present-day Batangas City. See also Tagalog batangan (“timberland; place of wooden rafts”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.