List of Hiligaynon words starting with the letter H - Page 38

Light, clear, bright (of colour); to be or become light, etc. (see lútò-dark, deep (of colour).

Raw, uncooked, crude (of fruit, meat, etc.); green (of colour); to be raw, etc. Hiláw nga ísdà, kárne, etc. Raw fish, meat, etc. Nahilawán akó sang ímo linútò. What you cooked is too raw for me. Ang hiláw nga duág sang mga dáhon-. The green of the leaves-. Hiláw nga pagkádlaw. A mirthless laugh. (see lús-aw, pakuláhaw).

Sudden, unexpected, premature. Hiláw nga kamatáyon. Premature death. A sudden, unexpected death. (see agáp, hinálì, kuyús).

Right of matrimony; fornication; to fornicate, use the right of matrimony, have sexual intercourse. Naghiláwas siá. He committed fornication. (see láwas).

Out of the perpendicular or vertical line, leaning, inclined, bent, lopsided, slanting; to lean; incline, slant. Tadlungá ang hiláy nga halígi. Straighten the leaning post. Iníng káhoy nagahiláy pa bagátnan. This tree inclines towards the south. Ginhiláy sang hángin ang ámon baláy. The wind caused our house to lean. Ginahiláy sang hángin ang mga kawáyan. The bamboo is being bent by the wind. (see hápay, hapáy, tikô).

(H) To be or go far away, travel far. Nagpahilayô siá sa ákon. He went far away from me. Indì ka magpahilayô. Don't go far. Ipahilayô mo sa ímo mga bátà ang maláut nga mga balasahón. Remove far from your children bad reading matter. Ipahilayô mo siá sa ímo baláy. Send him far away from your home. Nagahilayóay ang íla bánwa. Their home-towns are far away one from the other. (see layô).

Drop-lipped. Hílhil nga táo. A man with a hanging under-lip. Naghílhil siá. He became drop-lipped (see hálhal).

(H) To reach, catch up with. See hiábut.

(H) Things to be wept over, fit or deserving to have tears shed over. (see hibî).

(H) Weeping, act of crying. Walâ pa gihápon matápus ang íya hilibíon. Her weeping is not over yet.

To pour out a liquid (from a bottle, etc.). Hilíga ang túbig sa bayóng. Pour the water out of the "bayóng". Hilígi akó sing isá ka báso nga bíno. Pour out a glass of wine for me. Ginhilígan níya ang ákon kópa sing bíno. He poured wine into my glass.

The dialect of Iloilo; to speak that dialect. Nagahiligáynon na siá, kay naghígdà kagáb-i sa Móhon. He speaks the dialect of Iloilo now for last night he slept in Mohon. (This sarcastic remark is often applied to people from the interior who, after but a short stay in Iloilo, pretend to speak "Hiligáynon").

(H) Lovable, amiable, to be loved, much appreciated or cherished, worthy of one's affections. (see gúgma).

(H) Fit to be scorned or disparaged, reproachable, censurable, blamable, reprehensible, contemptible, faulty, blameworthy. (see híkay).

(H) Disparaging language, finding fault with, depreciating, criticizing adversely, etc. (see híkay).

(H) Things to be prepared or arranged, preparations, arrangements, measures to be taken. (see híkot).

(H) Any vessel into which a liquid is to be poured. (see hílig).

(H) The plural form of hilóong-to be together; to pull together.

A fishmonger's table or stall, place where fish is scaled and cleaned; fish-refuse, fish-scrap; place where one is-watched,-sounded,-under observation. (see hímbis, hilimbíson).

That is to be scaled, etc. (as fish); one to be-sounded,-probed,-investigated. (see hilimbísan).