The story
- Spanish · derived frombarcada“shipload”
- Philippine Spanish · derived frombarcada“gang of friends”
- Tagalog · borrowed frombarkada
- English todaybarkada
Borrowed from Tagalog barkada, from Philippine Spanish barcada (“gang of friends”), from Spanish barcada (“shipload”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.