Home › Words › B › balauabalauabalaua means A type of (large) spirit house in the Philippines, used especially by the Itneg people.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, balaua ranks #30,074 of 42,747 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom one of the Itneg languages.nounA type of (large) spirit house in the Philippines, used especially by the Itneg people.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.balei 66% match — a type of hall, station, or large building for public uses, typically found in present-day Malaysia vs balaua →bais 57% match — A kind of Filipino mead drink. vs balaua →balanghai 56% match — A large boat, about 18 meters in length, used by Malay settlers of the Philippines in prehispanic times. Such a vessel would carry a small clan or a large family. vs balaua →talabon 55% match — A kind of sedan chair. vs balaua →balangay 55% match — A type of wooden watercraft used by a group of Austronesian people when they migrated to the Philippines. vs balaua →lauan 55% match — Any of several types of light wood, resembling mahogany, from various trees from the Philippines and Malaysia. vs balaua →balinghasay 54% match — The tropical tree Buchanania arborescens. vs balaua →bulul 54% match — A carved wooden figure used to guard the rice crop by the Ifugao peoples of northern Luzon. vs balaua →