From root: sabon
Usage Note
Sabunan refers to the tray or container where a bar of soap is kept. It is usually found in the bathroom or near the kitchen sink.
Examples
" Nasa sabunan ang sabon. "
Natural Translation
The soap is in the soap dish.
Literal Translation
In-the soap-dish the soap.
" Ipatong mo ang sabon sa sabunan. "
Natural Translation
Put the soap on the soap dish.
Literal Translation
Put you the soap on the soap-dish.
" Linisin mo ang sabunan dahil madulas na ito sa naipong sabong natunaw. "
Natural Translation
Clean the soap dish because it has become slippery from the melted soap that built up.
Literal Translation
Clean you the soap-dish because slippery already it from accumulated soap that melted.
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