Yakan - kanji'

kanji'

A glutinous substance that cooks out of rice.

It bubbles up and comes to the top when good rice is cooked. Rice of poor quality does not have it. In old times people brushed the substance on the warp when weaving a headcloth, to stiffen it.

Niya' kanji'ne pegge' buwas hāp binellakun.

It has a glutinous substance because it is good rice that I am cooking.

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N-, mag-

For glutinous substance to come out (of rice).

Hāp buwas inin tiya' nganji' bang binella.

This rice is good; a glutinous substance comes out when it is cooked.

Palaga'un binubbugin, ambat magkanji'.

Cook the rice gruel until it is very done; let the glutinous substance come out.