Glossary Term
Risk: High- Approved rendering
- Diyos
- Transliteration
- Diyos
- Rejected alternatives
- Bathala
God
Diyos (from Spanish Dios) is shared across Catholic and Protestant Filipino usage with well-established, non-ambiguous doctrinal content. Avoid Bathala, the pre-colonial Tagalog supreme-being concept, which carries a different cosmological framework than the biblical Creator.