elalan noun English. Large bark container used to carry rice from the field. Example sentence: Subanen. Sa' mekpuun maita gumani, subay mengalud pau deli', baalen ku tangkeb, pu' nda'iduni gelalan ku dun. English. When we begin to harvest, I need to skin some bark off a tree quickly, I'll make a bark-container, because I have nothing to put the crop in. Generic. tangkeb