banus 1n A kind of scraper for smoothing wood or bamboo. Ko du-on oglaslasan no tabla, oggamiton ta ka nighimu no banus no nigligkat to balakayu. If we have a piece of wood to sand, we use a scraper which was made from balakayu bamboo. Ka agad nokoy no igkalaslas, banus dod ka ngaran. Whatever is used to scrape or sand, is also called a scraper. [It is made of several thin bamboo blades, sharpened on the bottom and strung together with rattan.] see: bol-is. 2v To use something to smooth by scraping or sanding such as sandpaper, a knife or other instrument, metal or bamboo. Ian ta igbanus to tabla oyow ogmalanang ka nighimu no banus no napu-un to balakayu. That which we use to scrape the wood so that it will be smooth which was made [into] a scraper which came from balakayu bamboo. Ogbanoson ta ka tagob to mo-irob. oyow ogmalanang. We scrape the sheath of the knife so that it will become smooth.
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malanang so goinawa phr. of: lanang. Peaceful feeling. [Also expressed as Maawang so goinawa. “His/her breath is clear” meaning he/she has peace and no animosity toward anyone.]
malanang/malonang so goinawa phr. of: goinawa. Peaceful feeling (lit smooth breath); to feel good or peaceful [TA Durung says in his dialect, malonang means “smooth” and is not not used figuratively for peace. Rather, he would use ma-awang no goinawa “clear breath” to express the same concept.]