abugawCompareLaw and judges 17.1 TableLawyer; attorneyBang kami maghukum ngeddoˈ ku abugaw duk niyaˈ nabangan aku.When we (have something) to judge I fetch a lawyer so that there is someone helping me.
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abunaSubject N-(-an), mag-; Object -anTo pay another person's debt; to advance payment for someone elseMagabuna ku meˈ utangnun.I will pay your debts.Ngabuna kew dahuˈ peggeˈ gaˈ niyaˈ sīnku.Go ahead (and) pay the debt because I have no money.Abunahanun dahuˈ utangne si akuhin.Pay first his debt to me.Si Dende ngabunahan akuhin.Dende payed (the debt) for me.
abungCompareableySubject N-, mag-; Object -anTo head off someone or something; to overtake someone or something and stop him (by using a shortcut or going faster)Tiyaˈ ku magabung manuk duk hap pī si leppas.I am heading off the chicken so that it will go to the trap.Dembuwaˈ hadja kite ngabung manuk iyan.We will just head off one of those chickens.Abunganku bagaykun amban lān bentel duk taˈabutku.I will overtake my friend on a straight path so that I will reach him.
abut2Comparesigi-sigimagabut, magabut-abutcomplex formTo be continuous, continual; (of events) to come one after the otherMagabut-abut kādjaˈannen, gaˈi magbekkat.His festivities are continuous without a break.
abut1most frequent formComparesaˈuttekkad1Subject mag- (recip.); Object ta-To reach something (an object or a location)Magabut kami laˈi si Lamitan.We reached (each other) there in Lamitan (i.e. we met there in Lamitan).Gaˈ taˈabutku lansa salungin.I did not reach the ferry in the morning.Abutku Lamitan ensiniˈ.I reached Lamitan earlier.Taˈabutne ne gahrapun bāng-bāngin.He can reach the cookie jar already.2Subject pa-, -um-For something to reach a certain point (spatial); extend to; come; go.Paˈabut ku harap pitu duk kite magkesuwaˈ.I came here so that we would meet.Gaˈ pe umabut boheˈin pī si lumaˈ kami.The water (pipe) has not yet reached up to our house.taˈabutcomplex formTo reach a point in time or a stage of development.Pag taˈabut ku ngiskul kulang sīnku.When I reached (the age) to go to school I didn't have enough money.Paˈin aˈahin: hap lumaˈ ku simana dembuwaˈin. Pag taˈabut ne simana dembuwaˈin hap lumaˈ ne iye.The person said: I will go home next week. When the following week had been reached he went home.umabutcomplex formTo be enough for something, sufficeSemmek inin gaˈi umabut hinang sawal.This cloth isn't enough for making trousers.
Activities to know or control the supernatural 14.17 Table
| āmat | Foreknowledge (acquired through omens). |
| āmat | To acquire knowledge (from something that appears to the person or through omens); to find out (through omens if an action is opportune). |
| bahasa2 | To call on a familiar spirit. |
| kuluk-kuluk | Expression said several times to call rain to come. |
| etikad (inetikadr) | The object or action that assures desired results. |
| hulew | To stop the rain by saying hūlew-hulew. |
| irup-mati | Words uttered in counting for good luck. |
| lessa 3 | To divine something; to find out something through divination; to request someone to divine. |
| limal | To divine something; to find out something unknown. |
| lundang (duwa'a lindang) | A spell to make someone else want to be one)s friend. |
| payam 2 | To ask (a fortune-teller) to divine, ask for divination, request to have the fortune told. |
| saˈat | Omen. |
| salat | A cure for something; a preventive measure; a charm. |
| sambit | To divine something (by means of a string).1 |
addatvariantārat2Comparemātabatangan-angankawul-piˈilhinang2lukunsanglithadjebahasa31nounCustom; habit; courtesyHāp addat aˈa iyan.The customs of that person are good.2verbSubject mag-To be polite; to be courteousMagaddat ku si saweˈku.I am polite to my companion. (i.e. I treat him with courtesy).3verbSubject N-(-an); Object -anTo entertain someone, esp. visitorsAddatanun siye.Entertain them.Gaˈi ku taˈu ngaddat bang gaˈ niyaˈ pangaddatku.I don't know how to entertain if I don't have anything to entertain with.
addilComparelimpiyuTo be meticulous (especially about cleanliness and orderliness); pureAˈa iyan addil si meˈ panyapne. Limpiyuhanne duk tigpesne meˈ panyapnen.That person is meticulous about his belongings. He cleans and clears away his things.Aˈa iyan addil si baranne.That person is meticulous about his body.Bang gaˈ niyaˈ saget-saget boheˈin addil ne.If there is nothing mixed in with the water it is pure.Bang addil aˈahin gaˈ niyaˈ dusene.If a person is pure he doesn't have any sin.
addunCompareBaked goods and sweets 21.1 Table1nounDough2verbSubject N- mag-To prepare or make a doughSiˈitkun magaddun hinang panyām.My aunt prepares the dough to make rice cakes.
adjakComparesinnalamidageylolaˈ1AdjectiveTo be happy, to have fun (because of being in a crowd)Adjak iye laˈi peggeˈ ekka saweˈne.He is happy there because he has many companions.2verbSubject mag- (pl.)To do something together for funDiˈilew magadjak kami manamal.Yesterday we had a lot of fun together.Pī kaˈam magadjak laˈi si luwasan.Go to have fun outside.3verbSubject N-To entertain someone, to occupy someone (in a manner pleasing to him, playing games, etc.)Adjakun siye duk gey lemmaˈ lessade.Entertain them so that they won't feel bored (lit. soft).Pī ku ngadjak meˈ mākanak miyaˈan.I entertain the children (play games with them, tell them a story etc.).
adjasSubject N-(-an), mag-; Object -anTo adjust something, esp. to set a watchPituhun koˈ, aku ngadjas delosnu iyan.Come here, I will adjust your watch.
Adjectives & verbs used in connection with plants 8.3 Table
| kongkong1 | To curl (up) and/or become stiff, shrivel (up) (like a leaf, plastic, nylon when burnt). |
| gebbu | Dense (of forest, underbrush, weeds). |
| lanes | Withered, wilted. |
| lele | To go for something, to crawl on something |
| ngingking | To be curled up (because of heat, cold and/or dryness). |
| sulig1 | To grow, increase in size. |
| tomoˈ | To sprout, grow. |
| tumbuˈ 1 | To grow, sprout (of things seen above ground). |
Adjectives and verbs used in connection with sickness 12.12 Table
| angel | Wounded (only in fighting when killing was intended). |
| ayat-ayat | To be sick unto death. |
| baˈan1 | To sneeze. |
| bakat 1 | To be cut, wounded (inflicted by a sharp instrument). |
| bakat 2 | To lance a boil. |
| bakat 3 makat | Raw, abraded, irritated (of skin). |
| bahaˈ | Swollen; inflamed. |
| balantukan | To be festering. |
| balew | To be crazy; demented. |
| bantaˈ | To cause or precipitate a relapse. |
| bangkug | To agitate, irritate (a wound and thereby making it worse). |
| bebbag | Bruised. |
| bebbud | Bruised. |
| benned | Numb; prickling sensation (when feeling returns). |
| bengngeg | Deaf, pretend to be deaf; inattentive. |
| binggul | Crooked; deformed. |
| biskey | Strong (of body). |
| bisu | Deaf, unable to hear. |
| bunel 2 | To be hurting (in a muscle because of a blow received; nothing is visible). |
| bute 1 | Blind. |
| karuˈ (kinaruˈ) | Sleepy. |
| katel 2 | To feel itchy. |
| kaˈuwasan | Being free from fever; be better (after having had a fever). |
| kawuliˈ | To heal someone; cure someone |
| kayog | Weak (after a sickness). |
| kebbut 2 | For something to be throbbing (as pulse, boil, headache). |
| kekeg | To tremble, shiver (because of cold mainly or out of fear). |
| kelles | To go down, become less, subside (of air, water, swelling). |
| kimey | Deformed and stiff, withered (cannot be bent or straightened or used). |
| koleˈ1 | To be well (after sickness). |
| kongkong1 | To curl (up) and/or become stiff, shrivel (up). |
| kukuˈ1 | Lame (cannot walk or even stand up, often because of a deformation). |
| dahing | To groan, make a groaning sound. |
| delles | To cramp, of lower leg; to have a cramp. |
| dugal (dugalan) | Hurt; injured internally. |
| ebburan | Nauseated, feeling like throwing up. |
| eggak | To burp. |
| engngeˈ | To be stuttering, to stutter. |
| gohol | To be hoarse. |
| hapus 2 | To have difficulty breathing; to be out of breath (because of sickness). |
| hemiyu (kahemiyuhanr) | The fringe of an epidemic; to have a touch of sickness. |
| hubug 2 | Crazy (a bit), off the rocker. |
| lakap | Blind. |
| laklak | Wide open. |
| lagsiˈ | To peel, come off (said of skin or bark). |
| lagsuk | Blind. |
| lambeng | Hanging loose (of a piece of skin in a wound). |
| lamma | Weak; to feel weak. |
| lampus | Completely covered (as of body with blanket). |
| langgad | To be abraded, grazed, injured (by rubbing or hitting of skin on another surface). |
| lango | Nauseated, dizzy, drunk. |
| lapa1 | To complain (about aches and pains). |
| lapus | To cover something with something |
| lebbut | Sunken, hollow (of cheeks only). |
| legget | Very sick, be close to death. |
| leggey | To spread (of sickness, insects in wood). |
| lessa 1 | To feel something |
| libat | Cross-eyed. |
| likumu | Suffocating; stifling, stuffy (as if it is too hot in a room, too little air). |
| liha | Dislocated (of bones). |
| lingeˈet | Perspiring; sweaty. |
| longkoy | Ailing, sickly, weak (esp. of old people). |
| luggaˈ | For something to lessen, leave off, decrease. |
| luglid | Severely crippled (mostly in feet, unable to walk). |
| matey 1 | To die; to be dead. |
| muntuˈ | Swollen (of some part of the body or the whole body). |
| ngasi | To be effective (of supernatural knowledge and power, or medicine). |
| ohap | To yawn. |
| pageddaˈ | For something to lessen, decrease, diminish in intensity, subside or grow less (of heat, rain, fever). |
| paliˈ | To leave a scar. |
| pāpal | Deaf. |
| pasuˈ1 | To be perspiring, sweating. |
| patey 3 | For something to heal; to be healed. |
| peddes | Painful, hurting, stinging (of pain). |
| peddiˈ 1 | Painful; hurting. |
| pengkaˈ | Lame; limping. |
| pessek | Blind. |
| pigpid | To shiver; shake (because of cold). |
| pinelli | To faint or feel faint, be unconscious (at the sight of blood). |
| pisi | To pull up or down, lift (the eyelid with the hand). |
| pisuˈ | Painful (unexplained origin). |
| pisuˈ (pisuˈ uˈan) | A stiff neck (from lying on a hard, high pillow). |
| piˈul | Twisted, deformed (of extremities). |
| pohot | Voice almost gone; hoarse; whispering voice. |
| punung | To be unconscious frequently or pretend to be unconscious. |
| pupus | For something to be covered with something |
| saki | To be sick or ill. |
| salaˈ 2 | For something to be wrong; esp. sprained, dislocated. |
| sampat | Full term (of babies born after a normal length of pregnancy). |
| sayu 1 | To be conscious. |
| sekkel | To choke someone with hands; to strangle someone |
| seddekan | To choke on something (esp. water). |
| selowak | To be hollow or sunken (of eyes). |
| sidda | Strong, potent, effective (of medicine). |
| signat-signat | To pant, breathe quickly (spasmodically, or in a labored manner). |
| songot | To be perspiring, sweating. |
| sukang | Prohibited food items and/or activities that aggravate or intensify a sickness. |
| suliman | To be slightly cross-eyed. |
| tebeysuˈuk | To be sprained (of bones). |
| teddak | To burst, split open (of a boil only). |
| teggal | For something to be shaken or moving; to have a concussion. |
| teggul 1 | For something to recur, break out again, come back, to return (of sickness only). |
| temmek | Soaked through (like a dressing on a wound). |
| tenne | To feel cold. |
| tugellan | To choke (on something hard), have something stuck in the throat. |
| ugis | An albino. |
| uling mata | To be dizzy. |
| umew | Dumb, mute, unable to speak. |
| utaˈ | To vomit, throw up.1 |
Adjectives used in connection with carpentry 19.7 Table
| buˈug2 | Dilapidated (of building). |
| hudjag | Big, wide (of floor space in houses). |
| lanjung | Pointed (and long of roof). |
| seˈek | To be close (in proximity or relation). |
| sibit | To be crowded close together (of houses, people, etc.). |
Adjectives used in connection with color 25.3 Table
| baluba | To fade (of color and cloth); turn dull or whitish (of gold). |
| bulahu | Dim; unclear; blurred; faded (of vision and color). |
| janggiˈ | Black (of cat only). |
| langgaˈ2 | Bright (of colors). |
| palang | Multicolored (of mat). |
Adjectives used in connection with plants 1.12 Table
| bebbud | Bruised (of fruit and fish.) |
| bunel 1 | A bruise (of fruit). |
| gabuk | Rotten (of wood). |
| hawan | Cleared of something (completely). |
| tanus | Straight and free from knots (of a length of wood). |
| tigang | Very dry (of natural fiber, esp. of firewood and rice). |
| tigpuˈ | Broken off (of tree, its top, branches or trunk). |
Adjectives used in connection with relationships 16.2 Table
| lantaˈ | Distant, far removed (of space or relation). |
| lāsiyaˈ | True (of blood relationship: child, sibling, parent). |
| pengged | Close, closely related (of relatives). |
| pingged | Closely related (of relatives). |
| seˈek | To be close (in proximity or relation). |
Adjectives used in connection with religion 14.19 Table
| balabangsa | Important, well known (of a person esp. of leaders). |
| balakat | Powerful. |
| bangsa2 (bangsahan) | Important (of person), high ranking, honored. |
| batal | To be invalid (of an ablution, prayer or fast); to be ceremonially defiled (of a person). |
| kanaˈalla | Wholeheartedly, truly before God. |
| kebbel | To be invulnerable. |
| kuhi1 | Permitted, allowed, not taboo. |
| kupul | Blasphemous; presumptuous (concerning one)s destiny); flippant, offensive (of talk). |
| dimalas | To be unlucky, to have bad luck. |
| halal | Allowed (by religious law); lawful, permitted; ceremonially clean (about food). |
| haram | Forbidden, prohibited, unlawful (in a religious sense); ritually unclean. |
| lahal | Fluent, very well (of reading the Qur)an). |
| lappas | For someone to be delivered (from all evil). |
| meˈingat | A person who can read the Qur)an and sing the mawulud; a learned one. |
| mukaliˈ | Uneducated person, esp. a person not able to read the Qur)an. |
| mukalu | To be taboo (of food and deeds). |
| ngasi | To be effective (of supernatural knowledge and power, or medicine). |
| pawas | (Fated) to be unlucky, to be always unlucky. |
| porol | Pure (of a substance or descent). |
| sihil | To be knowlegeable (about spells and charms that aid in fighting). |
| sukang | Prohibited food items and/or activities that aggravate or intensify a sickness. |
| sukul | For something to be all right, be okay, be satisfactory. |
| sumbang 1 | Abnormal, deviant, disruptive (such as an incestuous relationship, fighting between or killing of close kin). |
| sutsi | Completely clean (esp. ritually), pure, holy. |
| tammat | To provide the graduation feast (after completing studies in the Qur)an). |
| tullus | To be good at, skillful in (predicting something). |
| tuman | To come true (of a prediction). |
| umāgad (kaˈumāgadanr) | To be very frightened. |
| wajib | Good, right; obligatory (only used of important things esp. religious). |
Adjectives used in connection with seeing 33.2 Table
| bute 1 | Blind. |
| lakap | Blind. |
| lagsuk | Blind. |
| lakap | Blind. |
Adjectives used in connecton with hair 26.2 Table
| ballay | Loose hanging (of long hair when not done up in a knot). |
| kahug | Standing up (and sticking out). |
| kolong | Curly. |
| koro | Curly, wavy. |
| kulinut | Curly. |
| labung | Thick, luxuriant (growth), much. |
| mangga-mangga | Sticking out (in all directions); unkempt. |
| sagut | For something to be tangled (as thread, hair). |
| sulangkang | To stand on end, stick out. |
| tukung | Bald. |
| uban | To have gray hair. |
| usey | Tidy, smooth, untangled. |
adjiˈComparebatsahidjaˈVerbs used in connection with religion in general 14.15 TableSubject N-, mag-To study, to acquire knowledge (using the Arabic language as the medium); to learn to read the Qur)an; to read aloud from the Qur)an or the book of MawuludMagadjiˈ madrasa siye.They are studying in the Qur)an school.Ngadjiˈ kew duk kew taˈu.Study so that you will know.Adjiˈne da lamba inin.He read aloud this one page.Ngadjiˈ kite Kurˈan bang niyaˈ tinammat.When someone graduates we read aloud from the Qur)an.
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