List of Cebuano words starting with the letter B - Page 81

v. 1. read. Dílì ku makabasa, I cannot read. Wà ku kabasa ánà, I haven’t had a chance to read that. Basáha ang Biblíya, Read the Bible. Basáhi siya, Read to him. Hibasahan gánì ni Tátay ang sulat sa ímung trátu, If Father reads your boy friend’s love letter; 2. interpret signs, omens. Inighuman ug urasiyun sa básu, basáhun dáyun sa tambálan ang ímung mga sakit, After the shaman says the magic words into a glass, he will read your sickness in it. 3. understand, get the meaning. Nabása ku sa ímung mata nga gihigugma mu siya gihápun, I can read in your eyes that you still love him. hiN-(→) a. fond of reading. kabasahun a. feel very much like reading. balasahun n. reading matter. mag-r-/l-(→), um-r-/l-(→) n. the readers of a certain publication. tig- a. in the habit of reading.

humid

moist

femur

harsh

n. crack

n. large, rectangular bamboo hamper for storing dirty clothes; v. make into this kind of hamper.

strident

v. 1. for something not thick to split or shatter, split or shatter something Kinsay nagbásag sa pinggan? Who broke the plate? Nabásag ang sista, The guitar cracked; 2. for the voice to crack. Mabásag ang tíngug kun bayungbáyung na, When you reach adolescence, your voice cracks. (→) a. 1. cracked, shattered. Ayaw gamíta nang sag-úba kay basag na, Don’t use that bamboo container because it is cracked; 2. cracked in voice.

n. glabella, the part of the frontal bone between the two eyebrows, extending a little above and below.

n. kind of garfish.

troublesome

read

library

n. book

read

volume

atlas

n. library

n. field of wet-cultivated rice; v. cultivate a rice field. Basakun ku nang usa ka iktariya, I will make that one hectare into a rice field. -an n. rice field.