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Tagalog
Etymology
From sam- + bakol (“a type of basket”).
Pronunciation
Noun
sambakol (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜋ᜔ᜊᜃᜓᜎ᜔)
- basketful (specifically a bakol-full)
- sambakol ng bigas ― a basketful of hulled rice
- (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)
- (figurative) ellipsis of sambakol ang mukha
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