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tira-tira
A type of caramel candy.
When sugar is being made and is almost ready, people stick a piece of sugarcane into the syrup. It dries to a hard substance which is called tira-tira. Long sticks of chewy caramel are also called by this name.
Melli ku tira-tira si tinda.
I buy caramel candy in the store.
mag-
To caramelize (of sugar).
Magtira-tira sokalin pegge' laga' pamellaku iyehin.
The sugar caramelized because I overcooked it.
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