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lama n Cleaned area of ground, yard Agad matikang woy ko masagkop, makopal woy ko manipis no igliu to baloy woy ko lama, ogkohingaranan no alad. Whether it is high or short, thick or thin, if it is in the yard and surrounds a house, it is called a fense.
lamat v To serve to eat when someone dies; mourning feast.
lambag 1v To meet on the way, esp. coming from different directions. 2To make a date to meet someone somewhere.
lambagu n A village on the Liboganon river just below Mansalinao.
lambalamba n Sea serpent. [eel ??]
lambid 1v To cross ankles. (??ck) 2Euphemism for pokog-ab-abiron. 3v To choke, as of plants. 4To play by crossing one’s thighs with another’s.
lambing 1n A kind of spear blackened with lamp black. 2Blade not well-flattened.
lambitan n A fancy knife carried when traveling [which has a sharp, slanted blade at the tip and decorative marks at the top of the blade. It is used for self defense.]
lambog 1adj Fat; healthy. 2v To become fat; healthy. 2.1v To become well developed as a plant. Ko ogkakamot on [ka bala-as], ogko-oti-an on no maroyow to homoy su ogmalambog. When [the swamp] will be cut, it will dry up and the rice will be good because it will become well developed. 3v That which causes a person to gain weight; fattening.
lambotug To be bumpy from insect bites.
lambus 1n Fetish used to stop rain; consists of long pig’s teeth, and large conical snail shells, placed in one’s kabil; person says “Atuk tagui so biluon on no kabil.” 2v To use something, as a fetish, to stop the rain. Iglambus to uran. It is used to stop the rain.
lambuyug n Slingshot often made of abaka fiber in which a rock is placed it is twirled and one end released.
lambù 1adj Fat. 2A kind of plant.
lamiak 1adj Soggy, mushy sticky, as of food. 2Soft, as jersey cloth or a pillow. [Also used of jersey cloth.]
lamisok v To mix different kinds together.
lamita n Bottle, glass.
lamotik n Large biting black ant, about an inch in length.
lamoy Stunted, dwarfed.
lampaku n Large camote with pinkish yellow skin.
lampasu v To [wash ??] scrub as the floor with coconut husk.
lampà Guess, maybe.
lamping n Baby blanket.
lampod v To wade across water (mt.).
lampos v 1To hit. [This is generic term. There are specific words for beating and whipping which also involves hitting.] 2To strike repeatedly, i.e. to beat or whip.
lampoy v 1Travel up and over a summit, as to go up, over and down a mountain. Ka mgo otow no ogbot-os ka ogligkat to Tagasan, ogtakorog to bubungan ka oglampoy ka oghipanow no ogliling on ka ogtupang ka oghondiò to Maambago. The people who who short-cut form Tagasan, they travel up the mountain and traverse up and over the summit and descend as they travel downhill to Maambago. [The same word could also be applied to a plane which travels up and over the “top” of the earth even though it maintains a consistant altitude whiile traveling. (Traveling around the earth would be londig, the same word as traversing a mountain across the face or horizontally across the slope.)] 2To fly up and over the top of the earth. Ka ariplanu no ogligkat to Hapun ka oghondiò to Amirika, oglampoy to kalibutan. An airplane which originates at Japan and goes to America, travels uphill as it flies and descends as it travels downhill as it short-cuts the earth. 3