BATARES

This word appears in Luha ng Buwaya (Crocodile Tears), a famous novel penned by Amado V. Hernández.

batares
cooperative work


Batares is an agricultural practice whereby several persons help each other in building a house, farming, constructing dikes, or other such manual labor.

pagtutulungan
helping each other

nagpapabatares

Related Filipino concept: bayanihan

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