tapay
noun
English. A mixture of hulled rice, sugarcane stalk, a certain grass, chili, ginger, two kinds of tree root and two kinds of leaves,
which with some other ingredients is pounded together, dampened, dried for at least a week and then mixed with cooked rice
or cassava as rice wine starter.
verb
English. Mixes tapay with cooked rice.
Example sentence:
Subanen. Su ginaman, sa' ndi' tepayan, ndi' metini'.
English. Rice cake which isn't mixed no wine starter won"t dissolve.