amaya glossary

ABBA - God ABAY - Partner AGONG - Gong ALABAY - A Babaylan's apprentice ALIBUGHA - Prodigal ALUMPIHIT - Restless ANITO - sacrifice, formal act of worship conducted by a babaylan APUY- grandparent ATUBANG - adviser, minister

BABA - Father BABAYLAN - shamans or spirit mediums, priestess BAHANDI - treasures BAKUNAWA - a dragon-like snake that rises from the sea and reaches up to the sky to brazenly eat the moon. It is considered to be the cause of eclipses. BAI - princess BALAY - house BANA - husband

BANWA - territory/community BAROTO - boat or canoe BATA-BATA - dolls made from wood BATUK - tattoo BANKAW - spear BALADAW - short broad dagger BAYLAN- (Manobo Tribe) male or female priest or healer/ babaylan BINUKOT- young women (usually the daughters of a datu or rajah) who were kept inside the house away from public eye BINGIL - virgin BUGAY - dowry BUGNA - destiny BUKOT - Room where a binukot is kept BULAWAN - gold BUNGA - betel nut BUNGGAITAN- A diwata who cannot be easily defeated by any enemy BUSAW - engkanto / forest spririts BUYONG - best warrior BUWAN - moon

CANDU- opium

DAKIT - Balete or banyan tree DALAGANGAN - A powerful diwata or babaylan DATU - chief or a lord of vassals DADA - aunt DAYO - foreigner DIWATA - Gods/Goddesses DUNGAN- soul

GAHAT - to raid by land GINOO - prince GUBAT - general term for warfare

HANDOG - Gift HAOP - Datu's following (barangay) HABOL - Woven material like blanket HAYOHAY ( pronounced as Hayahay)uripon or servant in the corners of their master's house (aliping saguiguilid) HIBLA - Thread HIMALAD- palm reading

HIMARAW- gift HILUGO - blood price HUSAY - gold comb / hair accessory

ILOY - mother ILAWOD - downstream IRAYA - upstream

KADATOAN - from a lineage of a datu or any nobility KAGON mediator KALAG - higher spirit (ghost) KALIS - Kris (sword) KAMPILAN - a heavy pointed cutlass or sword KANDU - Epic poem love stories of Datu and Binukots KAPID twin KAPONOAN most sovereign KARAKOA - warship KATIPAN - boyfriend KA-UBAN - companion KAYAW - captured men

KIRAL - lewd or a prostitute KUDYAPI - A stringed instrument KUNGGIT - sungka, a native game; Mancala

LALANGBAN - spiritual river which divides Saad and Sulad LAON- God LIPONG - tattooed heroes LUNGSOD - town

MAARAM - Midwife MABAW - A child of wedlock MAGDARAGAT - sea man MAISOG - brave MANGANGAYAW - Sea raider MANGATANG - pirate MANGAYAW - to raid by sea MANGKAW - marriage courtship MAPURAW - someone who has no batuk/ tattoo

PAG-AANITO - an act of sacrifice or worship

PAG-AMPANG - drinking session PAG-UNONG - suicide PAMAMANGKAW - Engagement ceremony PANDAY - blacksmiths, general term for carpenters, boat-builders and jewellers PANDAY SA BULAW - Goldsmith PANDAY SA PUTHAW - Iron worker PANGASI - rice wine PANGUNGUBAT- Engage in warfare POLO - ten PULONG - meeting PUMARAW - mourning ceremony for a Datu or Rajah PUNGSOD - Region PUNONG BABAYLAN - High Priestess PUOD - a collection of banwa or tribes PUTHAW - metal PUTONG - crown

RAJAH - ruler

SAAD - Heaven

SANDIG - soldier/warrior SANDIL - secondary wives SILAT - a kind of toothbrush made of vegetable husk for cleaning and polishing the teeth SULAD - land of the dead / purgatory SUTLA - silk

TAGBANUA- ( Manobo tribe) powerful spirit living in the forest TAGNA - prophecy or prediction TALA - star TANLAG - conscience TIKLAD - victory in a battle TIMAWA - freeman TINUBOS - redeemed or ransomed TUHAY - uripon or servant who is housed (aliping namamahay) TUMAO - Second degree royal lineage; lower nobleman or woman

OYO - a polite term by which an older brother addressed his younger brother

YOYO - uncle

UBO - term for older brother UMAGAD - revenge of the dead to the leaving UMALAGAD - ancestor spirits