"Ulang" is a word in WARAY, TAGALOG, HILIGAYNON, CEBUANO
Ulang - thread
uláng - To hinder, detain, keep back, hold
up, impede, prevent, restrain. Ulangá siá
sang sugilánon, agúd índì siá makalakát.
Prevent him from going away by keeping—
up a conversation with him,—him in
conversation. Ginuláng kamí sang bahâ.
We were held up by the flood. (cf. pugúng,
sagáng, puút, tápnà, etc.).
ulang
Definition: (noun) lobster
ulang n fresh-water shrimp.
v [A; b6(1)] have, cook fresh-water shrimps.
paN- v [A12; b6(1)] catch fresh-water shrimps.
n trap used for catching fresh-water shrimps.
ulang-úlang n fishing lure in the shape of a shrimp.
uláng - (H) A kind of small shrimp, prawn.
(uráng id.).
ulang v [A; b3] for dogs to howl.
Miuwang ang irù gabíi, The dogs were howling last night.
n the action of howling.
úlang - Grandfather, grandmother. (cf.
úyang, úyong, bayí, lakí, etc.).
úlang, To twist, thread, string together.
Inúlang nga bunáng. Several strands of
yarn twisted together.
ulang v [A; a12] {1} separate, keep apart.
Kurtína ra ang miulang sa duha, Only a curtain separated them.
{1a} separate s.
o.
or s.t.
fighting.
Ulanga ang irù nga nagbugnù, Break up the dogs that are fighting.
{2} [A; a12] stop a wedding ceremony on account of an objection.
Giulang ang kasal kay miabut ang asáwa sa pamanhunun, The wedding was stopped because the real wife of the groom came on the scene.
{3} [A1] bar, constitute a detriment to ones success.
Kapubri nga nag-ulang níya sa kalampúsan, Poverty that was a bar to his success.
n {1} s.t.
used to block the way.
Ang ulang itrangka sa pultahan, Bolt the door with the piece of wood.
{2} age that separates people.
ug pitu ka lawud Heaven forbid!
(lit.
may it be separated by seven seas!
) Ulang ug pitu ka lawud dílì tà mudagsang nang sakítas átù, Heaven forbid that the sickness strike us here.
ulang-úlang n the space between the anus and the vagina.
ulang-úlang sa ilung n cartilage dividing the nostrils.
ka-an() n impediment, barrier.
paN- n a concoction of oil and plants to protect one from natural or supernatural evils.
The rain spun in the yellow arc lights over the café parking lot. It was empty inside, except for a fat Negro woman whom I could see through the service window in the kitchen, and a pretty, redheaded waitress in her early twenties, dressed in a pink uniform with her hair tied up on her freckled neck. She was obviously tired, but she was polite and smiled at me when she took my order, and I felt a sense of guilt, almost shame, at my susceptibility and easy fondness for a young woman's smile. Because if you're forty-nine and unmarried or a widower or if you've simply chosen to live alone, you're easily flattered by a young woman's seeming attention to you, and you forget that it is often simply a deference to your age.
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