gapas phr.: sugpang to gapas. n 1Cotton. 2A tree with cotton-like pods which can be used for pillows. It can also be spun into thread. [DB says this plant will only bear one crop and then die. (ck if this is same plant or different. DB says it is not the same as kapok.] 3A kind of white camote.
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loput 1v To protrude; become distended Ka otow no du-on almuranas ogloputan to ugat ka balitang no ogmasakit ko ogpoko-indos. As for the person who has hemorrhoids, the veins of the rectum become distended and then they hurt when one has to defecate. 2n Small camote. 3Dislocated hip. 4[Ogloput so lobut. (Expression used to admonish anyone who talks back to an in-law or calls them by name: the in-law will retaliate by burying that one in a short coffin when he dies.)]
pakang v 1To attach firmly, as with a nail, thumbtack.or put on or in firmly (as camote in a dove’s feeding container, or a bolo stuck on a stump, or as paper clips.) Du-on mgo litaratu no igpakang ta to alabat no igmaroyow to pogpitow. There are pictures which we attach to the wall which is good to look at. [This applies to fastening something to a wall with a nail or thumbtacks or fastening a pattern to a piece of material with straight pins.] 2Stick something firmly into something else, as a knife is stuck into a stump. Igpakang nu ka mo-irob diò to tu-od. Stick the knife into the stump. see: sanggat 1. 3Stick something into a small appreture??, as food into a bird's bamboo feeding tube. Pakangi nu ka limukon to mundù. Give the dove some camote. see: dasok 1. 4Become lodged in something, as a knife that is thrown Du-on otow no nigpalatok din ka duma rin to tag-i, di diò dò nakapakang to alabat. Saul cast a knife/sword at David but it just happened to lbecome lodged in the wall.
so-i 1pron This, near the speaker; generally marks topic case unless preceded by to. Dakol so-ini. This is big. Komkomon so-i mundù. Hold onto this camote. Ay-ayaman ku so-i. I like this (food). Niglanog on so-in woig. This water flooded. 2here [In answer to, Where are you? A person will respond, So-ini a. I'm here. ck LA]
tipù 1v To cut off, as the end of a camote which has tiny roots. 2deriv n The stem of a fruit, such as the pangi, or an apple. [There is only one tipu-an “stem” of a pangi fruit, DB says the stem of the pangi fruit namolù “becomes spoiled” when the fruit is ripe. If unripe, the pangi fruit is poisonous. (This stem is not called pakow which applies to some other plants.)] see: u-ud ??. 3deriv n tip, as of a sweet potato Ko ogko-inug on ka tipu-an to pangi, litos no ogku-on ta woy ogkagatan woy og-amulan. If the end of the pangi fruit is ripening, it is right for us to take [it] and eat and suck and chew the fruit off of the seed. Tipu-on ?? to mundù. [Rootlets??] on a camote. [This applies to the tip where the stem attaches or opposite tip where the roots grow.]
ugat 1n A vein, artery, nerve or tendon. Wà pad ugat. She has no veins yet. (spoken of a small baby indicating that it has no strength.) [Of the example below, DB says the baby has veins but they cannot be seen yet.] 2deriv n Having many visible veins. Ka otow no ugaton, ogkito-on ka ugat to bolad din su oggatow on. As for the person who has many visible veins, his veins can be seen because they protrude. 3adj To be stringy. Ka mundù no ugaton, woy on ogkito-on ko ogkasugba-on. As for a stringy camoty, it isn't seen until it is cookedl 4v To be stringing, as of a camote. 5deriv n Stringy, as of vegetables.
