The white pattern painted on the face and hands of the principal participant(s) at certain ceremonies.
At weddings the bride and groom are so decorated, also at graduations from the Qur’an studies the one(s) graduating, and at weighing ceremonies the one(s) weighed. The whole face is given a white grounding with talcum powder mixed with water. Then the same mixture is stamped onto the face and sometimes on the hands and feet as well. Few people know how to do this. They prepare the stamp pattern by cutting a small square bamboo stick and splitting it in various ways to make the pattern and spreading the cut parts by inserting small pieces of wood.
Punasanun tanyak-tanyak pangantinin.
Wipe the white pattern off the bride.
To put on the white pattern.
Tinanyak-tanyakan atawa binulak-bulakan luwe pangantinin.
The face of the bride has the white pattern put on.
Sine nanyak-nanyakan pangantinin?
Who put the white pattern on the bride?
She is still there putting the white pattern on the bride.