List of Cebuano words starting with the letter B - Page 73

n. mandate

n. order

n. rule

farm

cup

n. boat

n. ship

n. steamer

n. steamship

n. transport

n. baffle in a loudspeaker.

n. steamship or any large ship propelled by machinery; v. take a boat. Nagbapur ku padúlung sa Sibu, I took a boat in going to Cebu. — digíra n. battleship. — mirkantil n. merchant ship. bapurbápur v. 1. smoke cigars; 2. have sexual intercourse (riding on each other like on a boat) (humorous).

n. bar examination for would-be lawyers; v. take the bar examination.

n. cocktail lounge, usually of the sort which have bar-girls of ill-repute.

n. the B.A.R., Browning automatic rifle.

bar

n. 1. steel bar, rod. — dikabra crowbar; 2. frame of a bicycle; 3. measurement, the span from the shoulder to the tip of the opposite hand with the arm extended; 4. — i — eye for an eye and tooth for a tooth. Pamaslan tikaw bára i bára sa ímung gibúhat kanákù, I will repay you eye for an eye and tooth for a tooth for what you have done to me. 4a. punishment sent to a philanderer that his daughter falls victim to a philanderer. Bára nà níya nga gipaangkan ang íyang anak kay himabáyi man, It’s his punishment for being a philanderer that his daughter was made pregnant; v. 1. make into a bar; 2. for a girl to suffer at the hands of a philanderer as a punishment to her father. Baráhan ang átung anak ug magsígi kag pamabáyi, Our daughter will become a victim herself if you keep chasing women; 3. for a brother and sister in one family to marry a brother and sister in another. Gibára sa mga Kurtis ug Sansis ang ílang mga anak, A son and daughter of the Corteses’ married a son and daughter of the Sanchezes’. barabára n. shaft for a horse carriage; v. make into a shaft for a carriage, put a shaft on. barabara n. shaft in a pressurized kerosene lantern which holds the needle controlling the width of the orifice through which the vaporized kerosene passes. barahan n. 1. yard-*stick; 2. criterion for measuring something -in-(→) n. kind of cloth of cheap quality with big, checkered prints; v. wear this sort of cloth.

rod

v. 1. put a boat in dry-dock; 2. run aground. Nabara sa píliw ang barku, The boat ran aground in shallow waters. -díru n. be in dry dock; v. put a boat in dry dock. baradiruhan n. dry dock.

n. dockyard