Yakan - sukang

Prohibited food items and/or activities (that aggravate or intensify a sickness).

Certain food items are said to aggravate certain sicknesses and people are instructed to refrain from them. Also taking a bath or being exposed to rain or wind is said to aggravate sicknesses.

Pegge' ka'akan sukang iye gey hāp lessane balik.

Because he ate something that is prohibited he again doesn’t feel well.

Sukangku betengin.

My prohibited food item is young coconut.

Ine sukang saki iyan?

What is prohibited with that sickness?

Bang kew mandi bu sinampal kew sukangne.

If you take a bath and you have measles, it is a prohibited activity.

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kasukangan

To get worse (of a sickness because of doing s.t. prohibited).

Da'a kew mangan sukang duk kew ga'i kasukangan.

Don’t eat anything that is prohibited so that you won’t get worse.

magsukang

To heed, observe (prohibited food items or activities).

Ga'i ku mangan manuk pegge' magsukang ku.

I don’t eat chicken because I heed prohibited food items.

Bisan ku saki ga'i ku magsukang.

Even though I am sick I don’t heed prohibited food.