iskwater

Cebuano

Etymology

From English squatter.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: is‧kwa‧ter

Noun

iskwater

1. a squatter
2. a shanty town or squatter area
3. the slum; a dilapidated neighborhood where many people live in a state of poverty
4. (derogatory) a loud quarrelsome woman
5. (derogatory) a person one deems uncultured

Tagalog

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ʔisˈkwateɾ/ [ʔɪsˈkwaː.t̪ɛɾ]
• Rhymes: -ateɾ
• Syllabification: is‧kwa‧ter

Noun

iskwater (Baybayin spelling ᜁᜐ᜔ᜃ᜔ᜏᜆᜒᜇ᜔)

1. Superseded, pre-2007 spelling of iskuwater.

Usage notes

• This spelling does not follow the rule of double vowel clusters with an /i/ or /u/ as the first vowel when at the start of a word or when following a double consonant (where the standard is to retain the vowel cluster and add a ⟨y⟩ or ⟨w⟩ in between). See Appendix:Tagalog spellings for details.