basurero
Bikol Central
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish basurero.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /basuˈɾeɾo/ [ba.suˈɾe.ɾo]
- Hyphenation: ba‧su‧re‧ro
Noun
basuréro (feminine basurera, Basahan spelling ᜊᜐᜓᜍᜒᜍᜓ)
Related terms
Cebuano
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /basuˈɾeɾo/ [bɐ.s̪ʊˈɾ̪i.ɾ̪o]
- Hyphenation: ba‧su‧re‧ro
Noun
basurero (feminine basurera, Badlit spelling ᜊᜐᜓᜇᜒᜇᜓ)
- a male garbage collector
Ibanag
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish basurero.
Noun
basurero
Pangasinan
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish basurero.
Noun
basurero
Spanish
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /basuˈɾeɾo/ [ba.suˈɾe.ɾo]
Audio (Venezuela): (file) - Rhymes: -eɾo
- Syllabification: ba‧su‧re‧ro
Noun
basurero m (plural basureros, feminine basurera, feminine plural basureras)
- dustman, garbage collector (worker who removes refuse)
Noun
basurero m (plural basureros)
- landfill, dump (place where waste or garbage is left)
- (Chile, Costa Rica, Peru) dustbin, dust bin, garbage can
- Synonyms: (El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Mexico) bote de basura, (Colombia) caneca de basura, (especially Cuba and Honduras) cesto de basura, (Cuba) latón de basura, (Venezuela) pipote de basura, (Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, Chile, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay) tacho de basura, (Panama) tinaco de basura, (Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico) zafacón
Related terms
Further reading
- “basurero”, 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 basurero. By surface analysis, basura + -ero.
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /basuˈɾeɾo/ [bɐ.sʊˈɾɛː.ɾo]
- Rhymes: -eɾo
- Syllabification: ba‧su‧re‧ro
Noun
basurero (feminine basurera, Baybayin spelling ᜊᜐᜓᜇᜒᜇᜓ)
- garbage collector
- Synonyms: magbabasura, tagahakot-basura