bangun verb English. Pays a kind of fine for a death, equivalent to 10-20 bolts of cloth. Example sentence: Subanen. Mbangun nami su minatay. Iini mbangunen dun su minatay, sa' misaba'en. English. We have pay for the one who died. The one on whose behalf the bangun is paid is the one who died, provided he suffered (that death). c.f. sala'