List of Cebuano words starting with the letter L - Page 47

highway

see langsad, 1.

see lansadíra.

n. leprosy; v. be affected with leprosy. lansaruun, lansaruhun n. leper; v. become a leper.

see lansadíra.

hoax

n. guile

n. ruse

quirk

v. tell a lie about what one is doing when one is actually doing something else, make a lying excuse. Nanlansis siya paghulam ug libru apan namisíta diay, He came on the pretext of borrowing a book, but he actually wanted to visit my daughter. Unsa may átung ilansis sa maistru ug pangutan-un ta? What excuse will we give the teacher if he asks us? n. lie told to disguise one’s actions.

n. knife

n. penknife

n. small launch.

pocket knife

see galansíyang.

n. landslide; v. for there to be a landslide. Ang tibuuk lungsud gilanslayran sa mga dagkung batu ug yútà, The whole town was buried under a landslide of rocks and earth.

n. thin, white, coarsely woven cotton fabric; v. use lansu. Pubri man, dì maglansu lang, I’m poor, so I wear lansu.

n. tall, slender tree bearing a fruit of commercial importance. The fruit is whitish-yellow, up to 6. cm. long, growing in bunches from stalks which come out of the larger branches and trunk, and has juicy translucent pulp encasing one or two irregularly-shaped seeds: Lansium domesticum.

n. dressing for open wounds consisting of absorbent cotton soaked in a mixture of lime, vinegar, and coconut oil; v. make such a dressing. -in-, ni- see lanta, n.

n. cannon