The name of a lunar month, occurs about June to July and following the month of Bakākawna.
This month is signalled by the rising above the western horizon of the constellation Makayang di halhalibūbu. The general harvest of the main-crop rice, tiyalgaw, occurs during this month. The month is also the beginning of the rice-planting work season for second-crop rice, āmun di linawang, initiated by planting second-crop rice seeds in dry seedbeds, bunbun.