Pinoy Dictionary

uminit

Tagalog

(umiinit, uminit, iinit) v., inf. become warm/hot

parating

Tagalog

parating n. 1. message sent/delivered; 2. bribe; tip; 3. gift (in order to win favour (US: favor))

magpitisyon

Tagalog

magpitisyon (nagpipitisyon, nagpitisyon, magpipitisyon) v., inf. make a petition

anak-pawis

Tagalog

anak-pawis n. son of the labouring (US: laboring) class

linágo

Hiligaynon

Striped, streaked, variegated (particularly applied to rough hemp-cloth or cotton goods). (see lágo-worm; sinamáy).

An intoxicating drink prepared from rice, rice-beer. The pangásì is usually sipped by means of a small tube and served only on special occasions as at a marriage-feast, etc. Superstitious practitioners (babáylan) use the pangásì at their yearly assemblies near their "sacred places" called by them the "halígi sang kalibútan".

rúpsak

Hiligaynon

To smash, crush, be crushed, etc. See rúbsak.

suák

Hiligaynon

The flower-bud of the coconut-palm, particularly the hard, tough sheaths that envelope the flower before it blossoms and falls; to bud (of coconuts). Nagasuák na ang lubí. The coconut-palm is budding. (see swák).