gadab Variant. galab noun English. A tool designed to cut grain or grass, sickle. Example sentence: Subanen. Laung sia ni Samuel, nandaw mekpegani, laak inaan, ndi'u mekegabang, pu' su gadabu, mibeleng. English. Samuel asked for help harvesting rice today, but I canit help, because my sickle is lost. Cultural Note. The tool is a wood dowel ca. 1 cm. thick held in one's fist with a steel blade up to 7 cm. long mounted perpendicular to the dowel in its middle. Holding the dowel with one's thumb, one grabs a fistfull of rice stalks which are severed as one closes the fiingers onto the dowel. verb English. Harvests grain with a gadab. Example sentence: Subanen. Su ginarabu padang sepulu' bu lima betek da. English. The cogon grass I cut (amounts to) only 15 bundles. Generic. himan; pais