kalabera

Cebuano

Etymology

From Spanish calavera (“skull”), from Latin calvaria, from calvus, from Proto-Indo-European *klh₂wós (“bald”) which contains the suffix *-wós (whence Latin -vus), from *kalw-, *galw- (“naked, bald”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ka‧la‧be‧ra

Noun

kalabera

1. a skeleton
2. (dated) a skull
3. (folklore) an undead skeleton