basura
Bikol Central
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish basura.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: ba‧su‧ra
- IPA(key): /baˈsuɾa/
Noun
basura
- garbage; waste; rubbish; trash
- Synonym: ramog
Derived terms
- basurahan
- ibasura
- magbasura
Cebuano
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish basura.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: ba‧su‧ra
- IPA(key): /baˈsuɾa/, [bʌˈs̪u.ɾ̪ʌ]
Noun
basura
- garbage; useless or disposable material; waste material of any kind
Hiligaynon
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish basura.
Noun
basura
- garbage, refuse, waste, rubbish, trash
Ibanag
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish basura.
Noun
basura
- garbage; trash
Masbatenyo
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish basura.
Noun
basura
- garbage; trash
Spanish
Etymology
From Old Spanish vassura, from Vulgar Latin *versūra, ultimately derived from Latin verrō (“sweep”). Unrelated to Latin versūra (“refinancing”), which derives from vertō (“turn”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /baˈsuɾa/ [baˈsu.ɾa]
Audio (Colombia) (file) - Rhymes: -uɾa
- Syllabification: ba‧su‧ra
Noun
basura f (plural basuras)
- trash, waste, garbage, rubbish, nonsense
- Synonym: desecho
- something trashy or undesirable
Derived terms
- bote de basura (“basura can”) (El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua)
- caneca de basura (“basura can”) (Colombia)
- cesto de basura
- comida basura
- contenedor de basura (“basura can”) (Venezuela)
- correo basura
- cubo de basura (“basura can”) (Spain)
- latón de basura (“basura can”) (Cuba)
- pipote de basura (“basura can”) (Venezuela)
- tacho de basura (“basura can”) (Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, Chile, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay)
- tarro de basura (“basura can”) (Colombia)
- telebasura
- tinaco de basura (“basura can”) (Panama)
- tirar a basura (“throw to the basura”) (Cuba)
- tirar basura (“to litter”)
Related terms
- barrer
- basural
- basurero
Descendants
- Chavacano: basura
- → Bikol Central: basura
- → Catalan: basura
- → Cebuano: basura
- → Chamorro: basura
- → Hiligaynon: basura
- → Ibanag: basura
- → Ilocano: basura
- → Masbatenyo: basura
- → Tagalog: basura
Further reading
- “basura”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Tagalog
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish basura (“garbage”).
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: ba‧su‧ra
- IPA(key): /baˈsuɾa/, [bɐˈsu.ɾɐ]
Noun
basura (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜐᜓᜇ)
- garbage; trash; rubbish
- Synonyms: sukal, yagit
- (figurative) something useless; worthless; not needed; or of poor quality
- Synonym: walang kuwenta
Derived terms
- basurahan
- magbabasura
- magbasura
- tambakan ng basura
- telebasura
Related terms
- basurera
- basurero
Further reading
- “basura”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2018
Yogad
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish basura.
Noun
basura
- garbage; trash