List of Hiligaynon words starting with the letter K - Page 28

(H) Jungle, virgin forest.

The eldest brother or sister. (see pangánay, kagurángan, kamagulangán).

Age, oldness. Pilá ka túig ang kagulangón mo? What is your age? How old are you? (see katigulangón-senility, old age).

Famine, hunger, starvation. (gutúm, gútum).

Shaking, jerking, up-and-down motion. (gúnda; see kaúndag).

Hollow, void, empty; brainless, inane, vacuous. (see búngaw, kalóng).

Roughness, harshness, dryness (of skin, etc.); condition of being difficult to swallow. Kagúphal siníng kalán-on! How dry this food is and how difficult to swallow! Kagúphal sang íya pánit! Oh, the roughness of his skin! (see gúphal).

To clean, scrape, scratch with an edged instrument. Kagusá ang lamésa. Scrape the table, (the whole table). Kagusí ang lamésa. Scrape the table, (in places where scraping is needed). Ikágus iníng kotsílyo sa bánkò. Use this knife to scrape the bench with. Kinagusán mo na ang síya? Have you cleaned the chair by scraping it? Have you scraped the chair clean? (see kagís, kískis, águs).

Tightness, state of being crammed or pressed close together. (see gutúk).

Hunger, famine, starvation, quality of being hungry. (see gutúm, gútum).

See kagóom-cloudiness, etc.

(Sp. caja) Box, safe, case. (see sulúdlan).

Bluntness, dulness. (hábul).

Fear, fright, terror, scare, alarm, apprehension, panic. (hádluk).

See kahádluk. Also: Fearful, dreadful, horrible, frightful; origin of fear, things that inspire terror or apprehension. (see kalahadlukán).

State of being haunted, feeling of fear in a lonely place, ghostliness. (hágnup).

Thinness, slenderness, spareness, skinniness, emaciation, lankness, leanness. (see hágpis, kakanít, kaníwang).

Lover, beloved, love. (gúgma).

Tameness, domesticity, mildness, gentleness, meekness. (see hagúp).

Voracity, greediness, gluttony, extravagance, expensiveness, quality of needing or wanting much. (see hákug).