"Ulay" is a word in ILOKANO, HILIGAYNON, CEBUANO
n. neckerchief. v. /AG-/ to use a neckerchief. /MANG-:-AN/ to put a neckerchief on someone.
úlay - Pure, virginal, virgin,
uncontaminated, unpolluted, clean, chaste,
maidenly; to purify, cleanse. Uláya ang
ímo tagiposóon. Cleanse (purify) your
heart. (cf. pútlì, tínlò, matínlò, maúgdang).
úlay a {1} virgin, chaste.
Úlay nga pagkababáyi, A chaste woman.
Úlay untà apan putling anay diay, Shes about as much a virgin as a sow is chaste.
Úlay nga lasang, Virgin forest.
{2} pure, free from sin.
Úlay kaáyu ang ákung gugma kanímu, My love for you is very pure.
v {1} [B16; b6] remain chaste.
{2} [A13] for a woman to be so pure her body fails to decay.
Nag-úlay si Inday Putinsiyána kay ang íyang láwas walà man malatà bísag napúlù ka túig siyang gilubung, Inday Potenciana was so pure that her body hadnt decayed ten years after she was buried.
ka-n chastity.
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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pútlì - Pure, virginal, unsullied, unstained, chaste, clean, unspotted, lily-white. (cf. úlay, matínlò).
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