List of Cebuano words starting with the letter K - Page 74

coconut plantation

n. small, low-roofed hut for temporary shelter; v. 1. make such a hut; 2. put, store in such a hut.

n. cemetery

n. kind of hand tool similar to a small sickle used in cutting rice panicles during harvest; v. use this instrument.

see kalùkalù. see kalù.

shake

see kulugpus.

n. kind of sweet potato with white peelings and yellow or reddish meat.

n. name given to several aromatic herbs, used as a hair rinse. In some areas the name is given to a plant used as a spice, probably Ocimum sanctum. — sa kabáyù a tall, strongly aromatic, woody herb of waste areas: Hyptis suaveolens.

(from duha) n. twin, twins. Si Pidru ákung kalúha, Peter is my twin. Nanganak siya ug kalúha, She gave birth to twins; v. 1. be twins; 1a. have as one’s twin. — ug sawa be born at the same time as a snake. Some people are thought to have snakes around them that bring good luck. These snakes are thought to have been born at the same time as the person and are considered his twin; 1b. be coupled with. Ang íyang mga kasákit gikaluháag pagmáhay, His sufferings were coupled with regrets; 2. give birth to twins. Ang íyang asáwa gikaluháan ug babáyi, His wife gave birth to twin girls.

n. twin

twenty

n. luxury

luxury

(not without l) n. fried rice, made of leftover rice and usually nothing else but salt; v. cook or make simple fried rice.

(not without l) n. sweet made of very fine corn grits (tiktik) boiled with coconut milk and sugar; v. make kalukalu.

n. the sweet, watery outer coating of coconut meat.

v. scrape, scratch off something that sticks to a surface with a thrusting motion. Gáhì kalukhúun ang dukut sa kúlun, It’s hard to scratch burnt rice in the pot. Kukhúi ang dárug lápuk, Scrape the plow clean of mud. kalukhuun n. 1. meat of very young coconut at a stage that it is just scraped, not dug out, or the dalínug; 2. dredged to the point that only a little is left to dig out.

see kulúkud.

see kulúkus.