divata
divata is a 6-letter English word with 4 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A kind of nature spirit in the folk religion of the Philippines . Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. A kind of nature spirit in the folk religion of the Philippines .
- noun. ↑ Kroeber, A.L. ( 1918 ), “The History of Philippine Civilization as Reflected in Religious Nomenclature”, in Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History , volume XIX, number II, American Museum of Natural History: “ Diwata, devata, dewatu, dewa, etc., gods or spirits generically. Bisaya, Subanun, Mandaya, Bagobo, Tirurai, Magindanao, Manobo, Tagbanua, Batak. ”
- noun. ↑ Potet, Jean-Paul G. (25 May 2019), Ancient Beliefs and Customs of the Tagalogs , page 268 : “ This term was borrowed from Visayan in modern times. It is not entered in old Tagalog dictionaies. Its interpretation as a Spanish feminine one because of its final / a / is typical of 20th-century misunderstandings. ”
- noun. ↑ Hislop, Stephen K. ( 1971 ), “Anitism: A Survey of Religious Beliefs Native to the Philippines”, in Asian Studies , volume 9, number 2, archived from the original on 7 July 2018 , page 146 : “ With the Bisayans, the word is the equivalent of Tagalog anito. ”
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