List of Hiligaynon words starting with the letter S - Page 69

(Sp. chicharrón) Fried lard-scrap, cracknel, crackling, the crisp remains of fat after the removal of the lard by frying.

To hiss, call attention by hissing. Sitsití siá. Attract his attention by hissing. (see panítsit, panagótsot).

(Sp. sitio) Spot, place, room, location, site, country-seat, small rural village. (see lugár, doók, soók).

(Sp. ciudad) City, large town. (see bánwa).

Referring, pertaining to a city, appropriate or characteristic of city-life. (see siniudád).

To shove, push, jostle, press forward, elbow one's way through a crowd; to set type (in a printing shop). (see manugsiúg).

A kind of Chinese cake.

Cord, chain, strand (of a cable); ring, link (of a gold chain, or the like).

Temple, brow, etc. See síbid.

Dim. and Freq. of síwil. Also: irregular, out of order or alignment, not straight; a kind of fish with a very pointed head.

Projection, excrescence, outgrowth; cape, promontory, peninsula, projecting point; to project.

(Sp. silla) Chair, seat, saddle; to saddle (a horse, etc.). Nasiyáhan (Ginsiyáhan) mo na ang kabáyo? Have you saddled the horse? Nahókman siá nga pátyon sa síya nga kilás (síyang kilás). He was sentenced to die on the electric chair. (see sílya).

He, she, it. See siá.

Dim. of síya-chair, etc. Also: to carry another in a sitting posture on the crossed and firmly joined arms of two persons, a method of transportation often employed in carrying people across a river, etc. (see siánsían).

Chirp, cheep, peep, the cry of chickens; the whistle of steamers; to chirp, cheep, peep (of chickens); to whistle (of steamers). Nagasíyak na ang sakayán. The steamer is whistling. Pasiyáka ang bapór. Blow the steamer's whistle. (see siagít, píto).

See siápò-bagasse.

To bend the back, lean forward, stoop. (see sikóktot).

From soób.

Close by, near by, on the point of, too late, impossible for lack of time. Sóbol na nga índì na akó makahingágaw sang ímo delárgo. It is too late now; I cannot finish your pair of trousers. (see apíke, lapít).

To banish, exile, ostracize, deport, expel, drive out; to keep away, turn back, tell another not to go or come, ask another to stay away. Sobóla siá. Drive him out. Expel (banish) him. Ginsóbol níya ang yáwà. He exorcised (drove out) the devil. Sobóla na lang ang párì, manugbúlung, etc., kay patáy na ang masakít. Tell the priest, the doctor, etc. not to go (come) any more, because the sick person is (already) dead. (see pahalín, paíway, tábug).