malakapat comm. a tree variety that has cotton-like fiber covering the seeds; the fiber is used to stuff pillows; kapok tree. [The seeds of the kapok tree are removed and the cotton-like fibers covering them is used for stuffing pillows.] Immala dah malakapat ot kapyaon dah pungan. They got the fiber of the malakapat-tree and made it into a pillow. Sim: kapok, bulak; Syn: bulak. (sem. domains: 1.5.1 - Tree.) Language Of Borrowing: Ilocano.
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bulak comm. tree, cottonwood variety. Bokon tiempon di bulak ad uwani. It’s not yet the time of cottonwood-trees to bear. Maphod di muntanom hi bulak na aldattan ta waday ahi pangalaan hi kapyaon hi pungan. It’s good to plant cottonwood-trees at ones backyard so there would be something to get for the making of pillows. Sim: kapok, malakapat; Syn: malakapat. (sem. domains: 1.5.1 - Tree.)
punda 1comm. a pillowcase. Adi pakahuyop te maid di pundan nan pungana. He could not sleep because his pillow has no case. 2trans. to place a pillowcase. Pundaam nan pungan amam. Place a pillow case on your father’s pillow. Ipundam nan maingit. Use the red pillow case. ‑an/‑in‑ ‑an, i‑/iN‑. 5A Changing state of site by adding something. Language Of Borrowing: Ilocano.
pungan 1comm. a pillow. Idatam hi pungan nan golang. Give the child a pillow. (sem. domains: 5.1 - Household equipment.) 2v. to place or use a pillow. Adiyak pakahuyop hin uggeyak numpungan. I can’t sleep if I don’t use a pillow. Impungana nan naluddun an ulo. He used the rolled blanket for a pillow. Adim punganan nan golang ta adi umingha. Do not place a pillow for the child so that he will not be used to it. muN‑/nuN‑, i‑/iN‑, ‑an/‑in‑ ‑an.
unol 1trans. to place something inside or between; to stuff into. Unolan yu hi malakapat nan pungan. Stuff the pillow with kapok. Iunol mu nan itlug nah tinapay. Place the egg into the bread. Nganney niunol nah siopao? What is inside of the chinese-bun? i‑/iN‑, mi‑/ni‑, ‑an/‑in‑ ‑an. 3A Move and position object at site. (sem. domains: 7.5.9 - Put.) 2comm. inside part; the core; the stuffing inside. Ginohgo da nan unol di balat ot ipakan da nah babuy. They sliced the core of the banana trunk and gave it to the pig.
