sulu'
noun
Sense 1
English. Pitch dried, pulverized and melted to form a flammable solid used for light; a lamp composed of this dried pitch.
Example sentence:
Subanen. Kig dingan, melengas gupia sulu'en, pu' kana' memektik, muka' mesu'at baalen basu.
English. The dingan tree has very good sap, because it doesn't explode, and it can be used in making drinking glasses.
Generic. tagek
Sense 2
English. Any light used to illuminate.
Example sentence:
Subanen. Tutuday mu su sulu', adun medelagan su mulu' ta muka' sug lawas balay maita' ta sug duma ta.
English. Light the lamp, so that our faces will be illuminated and the living room to see our companions.
Idiom: menenteng sulu'
English. Stage of growth when an infant's eyes follow the movement of a person across the room, follow a light moving at night; characteized
as about one month.
Example sentence:
Subanen. Su gembata' sa' maita'en sug lamag sulu' iin da gusayi pegbentayanen paingalan dun menenteng sulu'.
English. When a child can sees the shining of a lamp; the first time she looks at it, it is called “staring at a lamp.”
Generic. bata'