beleng
Sense 1
verb
English. Discards, loses s.t., discontinues, disowns, wastes.
Example sentence:
Subanen. Ndi' mu belengayi gayepan mu.
English. Don't lose your toy.
Sense 2
English. Divorces, separates from s.o..
Example sentence:
Subanen. Naa bena' mikegbeleng nailan, inaan muka' su nga ngudan ku, ditu dami ni Ina' nda' pekpesuay.
English. Now when they (my parents) divorced, my younger brothers and I went to live with Mother, we did not separate.
Sense 3
English. Dies, euph.
Example sentence:
Subanen. Bilengan ita niin.
English. We have been bereft of him.
Example sentence:
Subanen. Mibeleng dinita su gembata'.
English. The child died (lit. lost to us).
Generic. patay
Idiom: beleng mata
verb
English. Becomes, is dizzy.
Example sentence:
Subanen. Naa, danaan, ini penggulaulauu, sa' buatu mektulug, sa' mekpetekawu megbuat, megbelengi matau.
English. Now then, as for me, this is what I experience, if I get up from sleeping, if I do it suddenly, I get dizzy.
Generic. batik
Idiom: belengan pekesuun
verb
English. Loses consciousness.
Example sentence:
Subanen. Sa' miangel su gapu' nami, mibelengan tanan pekesuun, laak, paladpalad, nda' da patay dun, su gangelen.
English. When our grandfather was wounded, he lost consciousness, but, fortunately, he didn't die of it, his wound.
Synonym. agem
belengan datu'
noun
English. The Philippine trogon bird, probably
Scientific name. Harpactes ardens.
Example sentence:
Subanen. Kiin belengan datu', kaas iini piningalan nami dun, duun daw dengantu ig datu', minita'en ki manukmanuk kini, dayunen pengeteday. Muka' kebalen mengeted dun, ndi'en na mesuunani guli'anen, sa' tanda' dapit. Kaas mibeleng dayun sug datu' kia.
English. The reason we call it the lost chief is because long ago it is said that a chief saw one of these birds, and ran after it.
And because he was chasing it, and didn't know which way to go to get home. And so then that chief got lost.
Generic. manukmanuk