Sama, Central

breakage.

Bang gila, kansang maka bilah.

If [a person] is preoccupied, [he] always can cause breakage.

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to be broken in pieces; to be cracked.

Lai bilah baanan kassah.

Those bottles are broken into pieces./ Those bottles have just broken into pieces.

Ley bilah eh ku sawan.

The glass was [unintentionally] broken by me.

jagjag, passah, hopoh

1.

N-, -an

to break something.

Bilaun na kibut bilah, supaya niyah tanayan bi.

Break the cracked glazed jar now, so we shall have a shard.

2.

N-, -an

to break open; to split with an instrument; to slit open; to slice lengthwise; to split up; to separate with the hand.

Bilah can refer to slicing both long and round objects, as slicing a cake. It is also used in reference to the hand separating of grated cassava between pressings.

Milah aku maras teh naan.

I shall slice the papaya now.

Pahalu na kami milah lahing.

Tomorrow we will split the coconut.

kottob, pis 2, sepak

3.

N-, -an

to divide; to share.

When speaking of fish, bilah denotes splitting and cutting the fish to share it with others.

Bilah nu deyng kami.

You divide our fish.

one-half; the split half of something.

Dambilah refers to anything divided lengthwise rather than crosswise.

Buwanin aku dambilah deyng.

Give me half of the fish.

Give me a fish filet.

Ley matey dambilah baran-na.

Half of his body is paralyzed.

tongah

the opposite side of anything or any place; the other side.

Katamin aku dambilah timbow.

Plane the other side of the lumber for me.

Si Abdul ele ma dambilah lahat.

Abdul is there at the other side of the place.

battah

both.

"Both", as with both hands, or both sides of a family.

usba, walis