Usage Note
Darak is the coarse outer layer removed when milling brown rice into white rice. It is traditionally used as animal feed, particularly for pigs and chickens, and has seen renewed interest as a health food ingredient and natural fertilizer in modern Philippine agriculture.
Examples
" Pinakain niya ng darak ang mga baboy. "
Natural Translation
She fed the pigs with rice bran.
Literal Translation
Fed she of rice-bran the pigs.
" Ginagamit ang darak bilang pagkain ng mga baboy sa bukid. "
Natural Translation
Rice bran is used as feed for pigs on the farm.
Literal Translation
Used the rice-bran as food of-the pigs at-the farm.
" Sa halip na itapon ang darak na natitira sa kiskisan, ibinebenta ito ng mga magsasaka bilang pakain sa hayop o pataba sa lupa. "
Natural Translation
Instead of throwing away the rice bran left over from the mill, the farmers sell it as animal feed or fertilizer for the soil.
Literal Translation
In place of to-throw the rice-bran that remaining in mill, selling it the farmers as feed for animal or fertilizer for soil.
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