List of Hiligaynon words starting with the letter P - Page 179

(H) Island, isle; a group of houses forming part of a barrio, but separated from it.

(Sp. polo) The handle of a bolo, etc. (see ápal id.).

(B) To be in a hurry or anxious to do something at once. Nagapólog siá sa pagpaúlì. He is anxious to go home. He is in a hurry to get home. (see pólok).

(H) To plate, overlay, cover with gold or silver; to polish, give lustre to, make bright. Pológa ang síngsing, aríto, etc. Plate the ring, ear-ring, etc. (Cover the ring, ear-ring etc.) with gold. Pológi akó siníng síngsing sing buláwan. Please plate this ring of mine with gold. (púlug id.).

Dim. and Freq. of pólog. Also: to writhe, wriggle, struggle.

See pológwan.

Dust and perspiration accumulating on the skin (especially around the throat, knees and elbows). (palógot id.).

(H) A basket with wide meshes, larger than an "alát" and used for carrying chickens to the market, etc. (pógo).

To struggle or make frantic efforts to escape from a firm grasp or to rise from underneath a superimposed weight, and the like.

Dim. and Freq. of pólok. Nagapolókpólok ang karabáw nga ginamarkahán. The buffalo that is being branded is making frantic efforts to rise. (see rímpwal, pológpólog).

(H) Spool, bobbin, reel. Isá ka polón nga hílo. A spool of thread.

(H) To wind up yarn on a bobbin. Polóna ang bunáng. Wind the yarn on bobbins.

(H) A large bamboo-bobbin. (see puludánan). Anything to be closed or dammed up. (see púnud).

Also used of persons: thickset, stumpy, pudgy, etc. Daw polóndan siá. He is very stumpy, thickset. (see búdul, pudól, pandákà, tipúngkò, karibudó).

To put thorns or briars across a path, obstruct a road or entrance by means of thorny branches and the like. Polpolí ang dálan sing dógi. Close the road with thorny branches. Ginpólpol níla sa dálan iníng sibúkaw. They put these sebucao-branches across the road.

(Sp. pomada) Pomatum, pomade (for the hair).

(Sp. pontifical). Pontifical.

Fallow, untilled, uncultivated, uncropped; to be or lie fallow. Póo nga dútà. Fallow ground. Nagpóo iníng talámnan, kay walâ dirí ang tagíya. This land lies fallow (is untilled), for the owner is not here.

To smoulder, smoke, burn feebly (but with much smoke). Nagapóog lang ang kaláyo. The fire is only smouldering.

A bunch, group, cluster; patch of ground, piece, parcel, district. Isá ka poóng nga baláy. A cluster of houses, a group of buildings.