kalabasa

• karabasa

Borrowed from Spanish calabaza.

• Hyphenation: ka‧la‧ba‧sa
• IPA^(key): /kalaˈbasa/ [ka.l̪aˈba.sa]

kalabasa

1. squash
2. (informal) botched attempt

   Synonym: kamote

Borrowed from Spanish calabaza.

• Hyphenation: ka‧la‧ba‧sa
• IPA^(key): /kalaˈbasa/ [kɐ.l̪ɐˈba.s̪ɐ]

kalabasa

1. a plant and its fruit of five species of the genus Cucurbita; a squash
2. the flower of this plant used in cooking

Borrowed from Spanish calabaza (“squash”).

kalabasa

1. squash

• kalbasa — dialectal, Batangas
• kalubasa — now dialectal, Marinduque

Borrowed from Spanish calabaza (“squash; failing score; rejection of a love proposal”). For the colloquial sense, see also Spanish dar calabazas (“to fail”).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /kalaˈbasa/ [kɐ.lɐˈbaː.sɐ]
• Rhymes: -asa
• Syllabification: ka‧la‧ba‧sa

kalabasa (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜎᜊᜐ)

1. squash
2. (colloquial) failure; flunking (of a grade such as in examinations)

   Synonyms: bagsak, laglag, lagpak

• “kalabasa”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero‎^[1], La Noble Villa de Pila, page 134: “Calabaça) Calubaſa (pp) C. redondas q llamamos de invierno, o las largas que nos otros ſembramos”