basura
Bikol Central
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /baˈsuɾa/ [baˈsu.ɾa]
- Hyphenation: ba‧su‧ra
Noun
basúra (Basahan spelling ᜊᜐᜓᜍ)
Derived terms
- basurahan
- ibasura
- magbasura
Related terms
Cebuano
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /baˈsuɾa/ [bɐˈs̪u.ɾ̪ɐ]
- Hyphenation: ba‧su‧ra
Noun
basúra (Badlit spelling ᜊᜐᜓᜇ)
Hiligaynon
Etymology
Noun
basura
Ibanag
Etymology
Noun
basura
Masbatenyo
Etymology
Noun
basura
Derived terms
Pangasinan
Etymology
Noun
basura
Spanish
Etymology
Inherited from Old Spanish vassura, from Vulgar Latin *versūra, ultimately derived from Latin verrō (“sweep”). Unrelated to Latin versūra (“refinancing”), which derives from vertō (“turn”).
Compare typologically Proto-Slavic *sъmetь, *sъmetьje (whence Polish śmieć, Serbo-Croatian смеће), akin to *mesti.
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
- Synonym: mierda
Derived terms
- bote de basura (“trash can”) (El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua)
- caneca de basura (“trash can”) (Colombia)
- cesto de basura
- comida basura
- contenedor de basura (“trash can”) (Venezuela)
- correo basura
- cubo de basura (“trash can”) (Spain)
- latón de basura (“trash can”) (Cuba)
- pipote de basura (“trash can”) (Venezuela)
- tacho de basura (“trash can”) (Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, Chile, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay)
- tarro de basura (“trash can”) (Colombia)
- telebasura
- tinaco de basura (“trash can”) (Panama)
- tirar a basura (“throw to the trash”) (Cuba)
- tirar basura (“to litter”)
Related terms
Descendants
Further reading
- “basura”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
Tagalog
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish basura (“garbage”), from Old Spanish vassura, from Vulgar Latin *versūra, ultimately derived from Latin verrō (“sweep”).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /baˈsuɾa/ [bɐˈsuː.ɾɐ]
- Rhymes: -uɾa
- Syllabification: ba‧su‧ra
Noun
basura (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜐᜓᜇ)
- garbage; trash; rubbish; junk
- (figurative) something useless; worthless; not needed; or of poor quality
- Synonym: walang kuwenta
Derived terms
- basurahan
- ibasura
- magbabasura
- magbasura
- tambakan ng basura
- telebasura
Related terms
Further reading
- “basura”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
Yogad
Etymology
Noun
basura