Editing Taal Volcano (section)

== Etymology ==
Taal Volcano was known as ''Bombou'' or ''Bombon'' in the 1800s.<ref name="Roberts1">{{Cite book |last=Roberts |first=Edmund |url=https://www.wdl.org/en/item/7317/view/1/60/ |title=Embassy to the Eastern Courts of Cochin-China, Siam, and Muscat |date=1837 |publisher=[[Harper & Brothers]] |location=New York |page=60 |language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160416052413/https://www.wdl.org/en/item/7317/view/1/60/ |archive-date=April 16, 2016 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite report |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8IlluJ4FPRYC&q=Lake+bombou&pg=PA89 |title=Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution: Showing the Operations, Expenditures, and Condition of the Institution |last=Smithsonian Institution |date=1894 |access-date=February 28, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210315232403/https://books.google.com/books?id=8IlluJ4FPRYC&q=Lake%20bombou&pg=PA89 |archive-date=March 15, 2021 |url-status=live}}</ref>

The municipality of [[Taal, Batangas|Taal]] and the Taa-lan River (now known as [[Pansipit River]]) were named after the Taa-lan tree, which grows along the river. The tree also grew along the shore of Bombon Lake (now known as Taal Lake).<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Carating |first1=Rodelio B. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sY7EBAAAQBAJ&q=taa-lan+tree&pg=PA33 |title=The Soils of the Philippines |last2=Galanta |first2=Raymundo G. |last3=Bacatio |first3=Clarita D. |date=2014 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-94-017-8682-9 |access-date=February 28, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210707132548/https://books.google.com/books?id=sY7EBAAAQBAJ&q=taa-lan+tree&pg=PA33 |archive-date=July 7, 2021 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=History & Culture |url=https://taal.ph/history-culture/ |website=Taal.ph |language=en |access-date=February 17, 2021 |archive-date=March 1, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210301172005/https://taal.ph/history-culture/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The Taa-lan River was a narrow channel that connects the present-day Taal Lake and Balayan Bay to each other.

''Taal'' is a [[Tagalog language|Tagalog word]] in the [[Batangueño dialect]] that means true, genuine, and pure.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Pulta |first=Benjamin |date=January 15, 2020 |title=Beneath the Ashes: Uncovering Taal's Rich History |language=en |work=Philippine News Agency |url=https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1090927 |url-status=live |access-date=February 17, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210707132557/https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1090927 |archive-date=July 7, 2021}}</ref>