Monday, May 24, 2021

Words for dirty and disorganized

Words for dirty and disorganized

Judging from their vocabulary alone, Pangasinenses view cleanliness as being next to godliness. 

Traditional cleaning practices equally bear this out.

Cleaning is second nature to locals such that unclean members of the family or community are looked upon with contempt, as proven by many negative words associated with the unhygienic (dugyot, burayen, dadarayet, etc.). 

The synonyms for dirty are especially numerous; they include marutak, maringot/maringdingot, amoringot, amoringis, and kandingot. 

More nuanced terms the indicate excessive dirt include atibatib, mannelnab, mandetdelpet, manpikat, manpikkat, beryutak, atingapol, and makagi-kagit. 

Amoyanggo is used to describe the disheveled hair of someone who just got out of bed, and its synonyms include asaganet, amurakday, and atili-tili (hair that got entangled in a very messy way). 

Words for disorganized include atalangkab, mantataligabuan, asiwaklat, akitungilang, manuusilan, magulo-gulo, makalat, and mantatabugis.

When eating, food that is akama-kama (handled with bare hands) or akalansaw (taken without using serving spoon or ladle) is frowned upon.

To a culture in which cleaning is a routine act -- whether cleaning the body, the day-to-day objects used, the house, the farm and farm animals, or when a major occasion like the New Year is fast approaching, dirtiness or being unkempt is looked upon with disgust, if not utter contempt.

marutak

maringot, maringdingot

amoringot

amoringis

atibatib

kandingot

mannelnab

mandetdelpet

manpikat, manpikkat

dugyot

beryutak

atingapol

amoyanggo - disheveled (used to describe the hair of someone who just got out of bed)

amosaga

asaganet

amurakday

atili-tili (hair that got entangled in a messy way)

makagi-kagit

mantataligabuan

asiwaklat

akitungilang

manuusilan

magulo-gulo

makalat

mantatabugis

atakatak (scattered in a disorganized way)

binurayray, aburayray

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