Yakan - sanggi'

sanggi'

Sub-cluster of fruit on the main stalk, side branch of a panicle.

Said of a head of rice or bunch of betel nuts. The whole head or cluster is called tangka' and da'ug respectively, but they have small branches with fruit and those are the sanggi'.

Urunganun ku lugus da sanggi'.

Give me one cluster of betel nuts.

Maghugut paley ku bu ekka sanggi'ne.

I removed the rice kernels from the stalk and many came off as clusters.

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N-, mag-

To make small clusters.

Sanggi'-sanggi'un lugus iyan.

Cut those betel nuts into small clusters.

Sinna ku tanem paley inin, nanggi' manamal.

I like planting this rice; it makes many clusters.

Magsanggi' lugus iye.

She cuts betel nuts into small clusters.