kulubot
kulubót with stress marks
wrinkle, crease
Usage Note
Kulubot describes wrinkles in fabric, paper, or skin, and is used frequently in everyday contexts — a wrinkled shirt before an event or the skin of an elderly person. The word has a descriptive rather than pejorative tone when applied to aging, though beauty products often invoke it to signal what they claim to reduce.
Examples
" May kulubot ang aking kamay. "
Natural Translation
My hand has wrinkles.
Literal Translation
Has wrinkle the my hand.
" Puno ng kulubot ang damit niya dahil hindi pinaplantsahan. "
Natural Translation
His/Her clothes are full of wrinkles because they weren't ironed.
Literal Translation
Full of-wrinkles the clothes his/her because not ironed.
" Kahit puno na ng kulubot ang kaniyang mukha, makikita mo pa rin ang ganda ng kaniyang ngiti at sigla ng kaniyang mga mata. "
Natural Translation
Even though her face is already full of wrinkles, you can still see the beauty of her smile and the liveliness of her eyes.
Literal Translation
Even full already of wrinkle the her face, will-see you still also the beauty of-the her smile and liveliness of-the her eyes.
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