basura

Cebuano

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish basura.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baˈsuɾa/ [bɐˈs̪u.ɾ̪ɐ]
• Hyphenation: ba‧su‧ra

Noun

basúra (Badlit spelling ᜊᜐᜓᜇ)

1. garbage; useless or disposable material; waste material of any kind

   Synonyms: sagbot, yagit

Central Bikol

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish basura.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baˈsuɾa/ [baˈsu.ɾa]
• Hyphenation: ba‧su‧ra

Noun

basúra (Basahan spelling ᜊᜐᜓᜍ)

1. garbage; waste; rubbish; trash

   Synonym: ramog

Derived terms

• basurahan
• ibasura
• magbasura

Related terms

• basurero

Chavacano

Etymology

Inherited from Spanish basura (“garbage”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baˈsuɾa/, [baˈsu.ɾa]
• Hyphenation: ba‧su‧ra

Noun

basura

1. garbage

Related terms

• basurera
• basurero

Hiligaynon

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish basura.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baˈsuɾa/ [baˈsu.ɾa]
• Hyphenation: ba‧su‧ra

Noun

basúra

1. garbage, refuse, waste, rubbish, trash

   Synonym: higko

Ibanag

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish basura.

Noun

basura

1. garbage; trash

Ilocano

A "No littering" sign in a mix of Tagalog, Ilocano, and English. The Ilocano portion, using standard orthography, reads "Basurayo iuwiyo".

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish basura.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baˈsuɾa/ [bɐˈsu.ɾa]
• Hyphenation: ba‧su‧ra

Noun

basúra

1. trash, garbage

References

• Rubino, Carl Ralph Galvez (2000), “basúra”, in Byron W. Bender, editor, Ilocano Dictionary and Grammar: Ilocano-English, English-Ilocano‎^[1] (overall work in English and Ilocano), Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 103

Masbatenyo

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish basura.

Noun

basura

1. garbage; trash

   Synonyms: higko, ati

Derived terms

• basurahan

Pangasinan

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish basura.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baˈsuɾa/, [baˈsʊ.ɾa]
• Hyphenation: ba‧su‧ra

Noun

basura

1. garbage; trash

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):

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• Rhymes: -uɾa
• Syllabification: ba‧su‧ra

Noun

basura f (plural basuras)

1. trash, waste, garbage, rubbish, nonsense

   Synonyms: desecho, porquería

2. 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)
• la basura de un hombre es el tesoro de otro
• 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

• barrer
• basural
• basurero

Descendants

• Chavacano: basura
• → Catalan: bassura
• → Cebuano: basura
• → Central Bikol: basura
• → Chamorro: basula
• → Hiligaynon: basura
• → Ibanag: basura
• → Ilocano: basura
• → Masbatenyo: basura
• → Tagalog: basura

Further reading

• “basura”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

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)

1. garbage; trash; rubbish; junk

   Synonyms: sukal, yagit

2. (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

• basurera
• basurero

Further reading

• “basura”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018

Yogad

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish basura.

Noun

basura

1. garbage; trash