Bisdak Words

Is the act of dancing and singing while making a newborn (and small child) to easily fall asleep. In the visayan folksong titled Dandansoy, is actually a name of aRead More

Garantiya simply means guarantee in English. A collateral or a warranty. Another term in bisaya is “kalig-onan” mostly a written document.

Mabdos as in buntis. Buntis is also used in Tagalog but is also commonly used in Bisaya. Mabdos is rarely in frequently used. Slang is buntit. Sounds like lapdos.

Hapdos in bisaya means physical pain like that of a wound or cut / bruise in skin. Also used to describe the kind of feeling of pain or in agony.Read More

Lapdos o latos (n) in bisaya means a whip or a stick that is used to strike, like an old ways of disciplining a child / children. Sounds like hapdosRead More

Palina, a practice of some religion to make a smoke to signify purification. Like those ritual rites in church through insenso. Another one is going out from a cemetery makingRead More

Postura or most likely used variant in bisaya, Pamostura (verb) comes from the Spanish word “postura” which means posture. In bisaya, this generally means, the way one dressed up. (SeeRead More

Did you know that Kulas is an irreverent nickname for a venerable old school for girls, St. Scholastica’s College? It’s not only your famous friendly neighbor named Kulas!