bakùTagalog tabakonNicotiana tabacum.Tobacco.Ke gel hamak yó kem libun tganay yem yehen le, sal gel nmò le bakù bolen.In the past when the women made a betel nut chew for their husbands, they always accompanied it with tobacco.Mdeki dou yem salang bakù mò bolu.Pound the tobacco reject leaves for me to mix (with the betel nut).Nam e kemnoli kut tum bakù kafal mò huluhu.Please pull out some of the small round leafed tobacco seedlings for me to plant.vTo use tobacco.g-, h-, k-, -m-, -n-.
Appendix 17-07 Other plants
| Varieties of tobacco | |
|---|---|
| bakù dilós | small, long leaves, strong tasting |
| bakù kafal | small, round leaves, numbing |
| bakù mékéng | dried |
| bakù nafid | half dried tobacco leaves braided together, rolled up and tied into links/lengths to finish drying above the fire |
| bakù nked | its leaves dried and tied in a bundle and placed inside the dry abaca sheath to make it airtight and then placed on the shelf above the firetable |
| bakù nuful | wide leaves |
| bakù snofil | dried |
| salang bakù | the last small, unsaleable leaves (rejects) |
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