kalabasa

Cebuano

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish calabaza.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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

Central Bikol

Alternative forms

• karabasa

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish calabaza.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

kalabasa

1. squash
2. (informal) botched attempt

   Synonym: kamote

Derived terms

• kalabasang pula
• kalabasang puti
• makakalabasa
• makalabasa

Hiligaynon

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish calabaza (“squash”).

Noun

kalabasa

1. squash

Tagalog

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

kalabasa (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜎᜊᜐ)

1. squash (plant and its fruit of the genus Cucurbita) (broad sense)
2. pumpkin (Cucurbita pepo) (narrow sense)
3. (colloquial) failure; flunking (of a grade such as in examinations)

   Synonyms: bagsak, laglag, lagpak

Derived terms

• kalabasahan
• kalabasang pula
• kalabasang puti
• kalabasang-bilog
• kinalabasahan
• magkalabasa
• mangalabasa

See also

• kamote
• kandos
• kundol
• upo

Further reading

• “kalabasa”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018
• San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613), Vocabulario de lengua tagala. El romance castellano puesto primero. Primera, y segunda parte.‎^[1] (overall work in Early Modern Spanish and Classical Tagalog), as directed by Gov. Gen. Juan de Silva, Pila, Laguna: La noble Villa de Pila, por Tomás Pinpin y Domingo Loag., page 134: “Calabaça) Calubaſa (pp) C. redondas q llamamos de invierno, o las largas que nos otros ſembramos”