"Lupok" is a word in HILIGAYNON
lupók - Discharge, detonation, snap, pop,
bang, crash; the report of a gun, a shot; to
explode, burst; the firing off of guns or
mortars at feasts, etc. May lupók. There is,
was or will be, the firing off of guns or
mortars. Nakabatì ka sang lupók sang
pusíl? Did you hear the report of the rifle?
Naglupók ang kaldéra, ang gúma sang
áwto, etc. The kettle, the auto-tyre, etc.
burst, exploded, blew—up,—out. Nalúkpan
si Fuláno sing rekámara kag napatáy.
N.N. was hit by an exploding mortar and
was killed. Nalúkpan akó sing kaldéra.
One of my cauldrons exploded. Ang ibán
nga mga ítlog kon ibutáng sa abó nga
maínit magalupók. Some eggs burst when
put in hot ashes. (Palupokí) Palúkpi ang
mga kalasálon. Fire off some guns for the
marriage-couple.
The values we rightly associate with the modern age - the "liberty, equality, and fraternity" of the French revolution - are all endangered today not by the dead hand of tradition but by modernity itself, and they can be salvaged only by moving beyond it.
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palupók - To let or make a gun go off, to fire, let off, discharge, detonate, fire a salute, fire …
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