Yakan - hongat

Heavy breathing.

His heavy breathing comes when he has a fever.

mag-

To breathe heavily (with mouth open, because of a sickness such as asthma).

A sound in the throat accompanies the breathing.

Da'a kew maghinang pabasag duk ga'i kew maghongat.

Don’t work hard so that you won’t breathe heavily.

hapus 2 gite'es

maghongat-hongat

To breathe heavily (because of exertion).

Said of people and animals.

Pag tekka kami la'i maghongat-hongat kami si kapekkengan.

When we arrived there we breathed heavily because of exhaustion.