Submitted Name
Type Political Subdivision
Usage Filipino, Cebuano, Ilocano, Pampangan, Tagalog, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Swedish, Turkish
Other Forms FormsMagindanaw, Magindanao
Meaning & History
From Spanish Maguindanao, which is a corruption of Magindanaw, the endonym of the Maguindanao people. The ethnic name means "people of the flood plains" or "people of the lake" from the word danao meaning "lake". This is the name of a province in the southern Philippines.