Meaning of "bamboo"

bamboo •

n.
• • 1. kawayan
  • 2. bamboo grove: kawayanan
  • 3. split bamboo: tinilad na kawayan, patpat, palatpat

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pole

n.
• • 1. a long, slender piece of wood, post: haligi, poste
  • 2. bamboo pole: tikin
  • 3. the end of the earths axis: polo

stick

n.
• • 1. a long, thin piece of wood: kahoy
  • 2. a piece of split bamboo: patpat
  • 3. a walking stick: baston, tungkod
  • 4. a stick used to beat another: bambo, pambambo, batuta baton

v.
• • 1. to stab, to pierce with a pointed instrument: tumusok, magtusok, itusok, tusukin, magduro, iduro, dumuro, duruin
  • 2. to fasten, to attach: magdikit, idikit, dikitan
  • 3. to become fastened: dumikit, madikit, magkadikit, kumapit
  • 4. to keep on, to hold fast: manatili, panatilihin, mamalagi, pamalagiin, magpatuloy, ipagpatuloy
  • 5. to stick out: umusli, pausliin, iusli, lumabas, palabasin, ilabas, maglawit, ilawit

bed

n.
• • 1. a resting place or bed: kama, katre, higaan, hihigan
  • 2. a low, bamboo bed: papag
  • 3. the ground under a body of water: ilalim

branch

n.
• • 1. of a tree or a river: sanga
  • 2. a small thorny branch of bamboo: siit
  • 3. a branch of a company: sangay
  • 4. a branch of a road: sangang-daan, sangandaan

v.
• • 1. to divide: magsanga
  • 2. to put out branches as trees: magsanga

sawali

n.
• • interwoven splits of bamboo for walling

labong

n.
• • bamboo shoots

bakol

n.
• • a big basket (flat), a four-cornered bamboo basket with round opening

papag

n.
• • bamboo bed, wooden couch

silat

n.
• • slit between strips of bamboo floor, break on the floor

siit

n.
• • branchlets of bamboo

kawayan

n.
• • bamboo

patpat

n.
• • piece of split bamboo

langitngit

n.
• • shrill, creaking sound (produced by rusty hinges or the rubbing of the bamboo stalks, floor boards, etc., against each other)

tinikling

n.
• • a native dance in which the dancer steps in and out of two clapping bamboo poles