garapon
garapón with stress marks
wide-mouth jar
Usage Note
Garapon comes from Spanish garrafón and refers to wide-mouthed glass jars commonly used in Filipino households for storing preserved foods, bagoong, or homemade sweets. You will often see garapon on market stalls filled with dried fish or native delicacies.
Examples
" Punuin mo ng tubig ang garapon. "
Natural Translation
Fill the jar with water.
Literal Translation
Fill you of water the wide-mouth-jar.
" Naka-imbak ang atsara sa isang malaking garapon. "
Natural Translation
The pickled vegetables are stored in a large jar.
Literal Translation
Stored the pickled-vegetables in a big wide-mouth-jar.
" Inilagay ng lola ang ginawang minatamis na kondol sa isang malinis na garapon upang tumagal ito nang ilang buwan. "
Natural Translation
Grandma put the candied winter melon she made into a clean jar so that it would last for several months.
Literal Translation
Put by-the grandmother the made candied that winter-melon in a clean that wide-mouth-jar so-that last it for several months.
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