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bintah
1.
N-
‘food’ to travel to procure food; to go get necessities somewhere else; to pick up supplies from a far place.
Bang kow ni Sempulnah, bintain aku saging anak-anak mele.
If you [go] to Semporna, pick me up some "child of the banana" [a type of small banana] there.
2.
N-, -an
idiom
‘spouse’ to get (or find) a spouse from another area other than the homeland.
3.
eh, ni-, -an
idiom
‘marriage’ to be found as a potential spouse; to be "the new kid on the block".
Mbal na kow payu mitu, subey kow nibintaan na ni lahat dikayuh.
You are not being bought here, you should [go] now to another place to be found by a potential spouse. [The "bought" here is used idiomatically.]
No one here seems romantically interested in you, you should go somewhere else and become the "interesting new kid on the block".
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