The outer skin or rind of a fruit, vegetable, nut, sea cucumber, etc.
balat
mag-
-an
To remove, peel the outer skin or rind of a fruit, vegetable, blister,
etc.; to peel off the bark of a tree.
Opakano tang binakalong kalabasa para igolay.
I'll remove
the
skin of the squash I bought to make it into a
vegetable dish.
Pamagopak tanira ta kasoy ba-lo ipekel ong Cuyo.
They are peeling cashew nuts before sending them to
Cuyo island.
Inopakan mo ra siang pāpa tang ayo, sia mapatay
da.
You have peeled
off the bark of that tree, so now it's going to
die.