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Bohol
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bohol
English
Etymology
en es Bohol, from en ceb Bohol.
Pronunciation
en /boˈhol/ Philippines
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Mlgc1998-Bohol.wav Philippines
en /ˈboʊhɔl/ GA
en /ˈbəʊhɔːl/ RP
en /ˈbəʉhoːl ~ ˈbɐʉhoːl/ General Australian
Proper noun
en province r/Central Visayas isl/Visayas c/Philippines Tagbilaran.
en Joe Minihane 24 of the world’s most unusual landscapes w:CNN https://www.cnn.com/travel/worlds-most-unusual-landscapes-list 2025-04-22 The rolling Chocolate Hills of Bohol in the Philippines could easily be mistaken for a child’s landscape drawing. https://web.archive.org/web/20250927133948/https://www.cnn.com/travel/worlds-most-unusual-landscapes-list 27 September 2025
en island r/Central Visayas isl/Visayas c/Philippines.
Related terms
en Bohol Sea
Translations
province of the Philippines
Arabic: ar بوهول
Azerbaijani: az Bohol
Belarusian: be Бахол
Bulgarian: bg Бохол
Cebuano: ceb Bohol
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 保和 Bǎohé
Czech: cs Bohol
Dutch: nl Bohol
Estonian: et Bohol
Finnish: fi Bohol
French: fr Bohol
German: de Bohol
Hebrew: he בוהול
Hindi: hi बोहोल
Indonesian: id Bohol
Japanese: ja ボホール Bohōru
Korean: ko 보홀
Lithuanian: lt Boholis
Macedonian: mk Бохол
Persian: fa بوهول
Portuguese: pt Bohol
Russian: ru Бохол
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh Бохол
Latin: sh Bohol
Spanish: es Bohol
Tagalog: tl Bohol
Thai: th โบโฮล boo-hoon
Turkish: tr Bohol
Ukrainian: uk Бохол
Urdu: ur بوهول
Vietnamese: vi Bohol
Cebuano
Etymology
From bo-ol, a fruit that flourished in the area where Miguel Lopez de Legazpi supposedly landed. Attested in 1582 as ceb es Vohol.
Pronunciation
ceb Bo hol
Bohól
Proper noun
Bohól
ceb province r/Central Visayas isl/Visayas c/Philippines Tagbilaran Bohol
ceb island r/Central Visayas isl/Visayas c/Philippines Bohol
ceb toponymic Cebuano signifying origin from the island or province of Bohol
Quotations
ceb
Derived terms
ceb Bol-anon
Spanish
Alternative forms
es Bojol obsolete
Etymology
es :bor ceb:Bohol + 1
Pronunciation
Proper noun
es province r/Central Visayas isl/Visayas c/Philippines Tagbilaran Bohol
es island r/Central Visayas isl/Visayas c/Philippines Bohol
Derived terms
es boholano
Tagalog
Etymology
tl es Bohol, from tl ceb buol Ixora philippinensis.
Pronunciation
Bohól LL-Q1860 (eng)-Mlgc1998-Bohol.wav
Proper noun
Bohól +
tl province r/Central Visayas isl/Visayas c/Philippines Tagbilaran Bohol
tl island r/Central Visayas isl/Visayas c/Philippines Bohol