sisang
noun
English. Foul-smelling, round, greenish insect, ca. 1.5 cm. long that charactreristically eats out rice hulls.
Example sentence:
Subanen. Su palay ta, Ama', subay bulungen mu, pu' inuuk pati' sisang. Kiin dema palay, sa' uuken sisang, ndi' mbaluy ig bunga nen.
English. Father, you'd better find a (medicinal/sacrificial) treatment for our rice, because stinkbugs are eating it. And when rice
is eaten by stinkbugs, its kernels don't develop.
Synonym. tetangaw
Generic. tubu'