Etymology

banca

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Today it means: A canoe; an outrigger canoe or dugout. Full definition →

Philippine Spanish banca ← Tagalog bangka
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The story

  1. Tagalog · derived frombangka
  2. Philippine Spanish · borrowed frombanca
  3. English todaybanca

From Philippine Spanish banca, from Tagalog bangka.

Words from the same roots

Tagalogbangka all →

motor banca

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.