sambakol

Tagalog

Etymology

From sam- +‎ bakol (“a type of basket”).

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /samˈbakol/ [sɐmˈbaː.xol]
  • Rhymes: -akol
  • Syllabification: sam‧ba‧kol

Noun

sambakol (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜋ᜔ᜊᜃᜓᜎ᜔)

  1. basketful (specifically a bakol-full)
    sambakol ng bigas ― a basketful of hulled rice
  2. (figurative) buckets (a great deal of anything)
    sambakol na kahihiyan ― great shame (literally, “basketful of shame/bucket of shame”)

Derived terms

Adjective

sambakol (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜋ᜔ᜊᜃᜓᜎ᜔)

  1. (figurative) ellipsis of sambakol ang mukha

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