bitayan noun English. Snare hidden in the leaves of trees, using bait and triggered by the weight of a bird's landing on it; characterized as used in heights, as trees or beams extended from a house. Example sentence: Subanen. Naa kiin pelum Subaanen keni, bena' dia na dalan, minita'en sug bitayanen, limuun. English. Now, as for the Subanen in turn, when he was there on the trail, he saw that the bird snare he had set had caught an omen dove. Generic. iman; pegutus