proper noun/baˈtanɡas/
a province of Calabarzon, Luzon, Philippines; capital: Batangas City; largest city: Lipa; Batangas (a city, the provincial capital of Batangas, Calabarzon, Luzon, Philippines; a former municipality)
Related: batangueño
From batangas, plural of batanga (“outrigger”), from Tagalog batang (“log”) + -a, after the wooden rafts found on the Calumpang River in present-day Batangas City. See also Tagalog batangan (“timberland; place of wooden rafts”), from batang (“log”) + -an (locative suffix).