| Form. | ||
| Rukai | kavaðanə | Bambusa spinosa |
| Rukai (Budai) | kavaðanə | Bambusa spinosa |
| Puyuma | kawayan | generic term for bamboo without thorns |
| Paiwan | kavayan | thorny bamboo |
| WMP | ||
| Yami | kawalan | bamboo |
| Itbayaten | kawayan | bamboo |
| Ivatan | kawayan | bamboo (of large type) |
| Isneg | kawáyan | the spiny bamboo, Bambusa blumeana Schultes |
| Bontok | kawáyan | a kind of bamboo used for making water or wine containers, or used as a carrying bar, Bambusa spp. |
| Ifugaw | kawáyan | bamboo |
| Ibaloy | kawajan | kind of bamboo that grows in warm places |
| Casiguran Dumagat | kawayan | term for bamboos of the genus Bambusa |
| Pangasinan | kawayá | bamboo |
| Ilokano | kawáyan | bamboo |
| kaw-kawáyan | Panicum crusgalli grass | |
| ma-ŋawáyan | to cut down bamboo | |
| Kapampangan | kawáyan ~ kwáyan | bamboo |
| Umiray Dumaget | kaweyen | bamboo |
| Tagalog | kawáyan | bamboo |
| kawayan-án | bamboo grove | |
| Hanunóo | kawáyan | a species of bamboo, Bambusa spinosa Roxb.; this is not a generic term as it is in Tagalog and several other Philippine languages |
| Aklanon | kawáyan | bamboo: Dendrocalamus merrillianus |
| Cebuano | kawayán-un | resembling a bamboo |
| kawáyan | general name for bamboo, but most specifically refers to armed species, esp. Bambusa spinosa | |
| Manobo (Western Bukidnon) | kewayan | thorny bamboo, Bambusa spinosa |
| Klata | kwaya | bamboo sp. |
| Mansaka | kawayan | kind of bamboo |
| Bikol | kawáyan | bamboo |
| CMP | ||
| Buruese | kawaan | a bamboo, the |