Language Name goes here

bālu

A mourning article which a person wears to indicate that his or her spouse has died.

A man wears neck, arm and head bands of rattan, a pullover shirt woven of bark cloth, laphi, open and tied with string at both sides under the arms and held in place at the waist with a rattan cord; a woman wears rattan neck and wrist bands, a hood falling down the back and held at the waist by a rattan cord.

galut 2a ngūhu 1a

For someone (patient ma-) to be in mourning for a deceased spouse, indicated by wearing mourning articles, as described above.

Nabālu nan lalā'i hidin natayan din ahāwana.

The man was in mourning when his wife died.

The period of mourning lasts about a year or a little longer.

For someone (actor maN-; s actor maN-) to mourn his or her deceased spouse (loc ref -on), with the use of mourning articles of clothing and rattan (inst i-, paN-), as described under 1.

pamālu; mamālu

galut 2b ngūhu 1b

Ambālu

A widower's formal mourning name; for a widower to observe a formal mourning period.

Imbālu

A widow's formal mourning name; for a widow to observe a formal mourning period.