saing
saíng with stress marks
to cook by boiling or steaming (usually rice)
Usage Note
Saing is the traditional method of cooking rice by simmering it in a pot with measured water until it absorbs completely. Before electric rice cookers became widespread, this was the universal daily cooking technique in Philippine households. 'Magsaing ka na' (go cook the rice) remains a common household instruction.
Examples
" Magsaing ka na. "
Natural Translation
Go cook the rice now.
Literal Translation
Cook-rice you already.
" Luto na ang saing. "
Natural Translation
The boiled rice is cooked.
Literal Translation
Cooked already the boiled-rice.
" Bago pa man magising ang buong pamilya, nagsasaing na ang lola para handa ang almusal pagbaba nila sa kusina. "
Natural Translation
Even before the whole family wakes up, grandmother is already cooking the rice so that breakfast is ready when they come down to the kitchen.
Literal Translation
Before even wakes-up the whole family, cooking-rice already the grandmother so ready the breakfast upon-coming-down their to kitchen.
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