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hābal
1
An upland field; i.e., a swidden.
For a description of an upland field, see ūma.
2a
Field weeds; i.e., weeds growing in a pond field or upland field or where plants are normally grown.
2b
For someone (agent muɴ-) to weed a pond field, upland field vegetation (loc ref -an) with the use of a suitable instrument, as a digging trowel, dohag, (inst paN-).
panābal
gābut, Weeding,
3a
For someone (agent muɴ-) to engage in field work.
Do'ol nan binabāin immuy nunhābal hi ūman Mayūtag.
Many women went to engage in field work in Mayūtag's upland field.
Work includes any of the following: building a field, payaw 2, uma; preparing a field for planting; repairing a stone wall, tapeng 2; spading soil, hu'lay; puddling a field, bū'al3; plastering a dike with mud, pi'pi'; planting rice seeds, patang; planting seedlings, bogay; weeding a flooded field, agaw'aw; weeding an upper retaining wall, laba; weeding a dike, hagaphap; planting a cutting, grain, seed, seedling, tanom; weeding in dry soil, gābut; making a rat barrier around a field, līdah.
3b
For someone (agent muɴ-) to tend growing crops (theme i-), such as rice, sweet potatoes, vegetables; i.e., plants bearing fruit or used as food.
Pinumhod nan pāguy an inhābal di tatāguh nan payaw.
The rice that the people tended in the pond fields became good.
Includes planting, tanom; weeding, gābut; and generally caring for plants until they are harvested.
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