takes Sense v Affixes mag-, -um-, -en, i-, -an English To measure. Example sentence Tagbanwa Taksen mu i lugta' mu. English Measure your land. Example sentence Tagbanwa Taksan ku ikaw. English I|́bll measure you (for a dress). See alsosunda1 See alsoustu' Sense n Takes it geba' English A unit of measurement. Cultural Note This is traditionally for measuring the size of oneś rice field if it was cut out of virgin forest. It is bigger than the takes it lumun and takes it benglay because, in a field cut out of virgin forest there would presumably be big immovable fallen trees which would occupy land which would otherwise be planted. It represents the distance from oneś toe to the tip of a machete held in the opposite hand with the arm outstretched. See alsogeba' Sense n Takes it benglay English A unit of measurement. Cultural Note This is traditionally for measuring the size of oneś rice field if it was a site which had been used as a rice field maybe five years or more previously. There would be some land unuseable due to existence of fallen trees, more so than with lumun, a site which had been used as a rice field only the previous year, but not as much as with geba', virgin forest. Hence the measurement is bigger than takes it lumun but smaller than takes it geba'. It represents the distance from the fingertip of one outstretched hand to the tip of a machete held in the other hand with the arm outstretched. See alsobenglay Sense n Takes i lumun English A unit of measurement. Cultural Note this is traditionally used for measuring the size of oneś rice field if it was the smallest of the three measurements as presumeably all the land would be useable. It represents the distance from fingertip to fingertip of outstretched hands. See alsolumun