salat
salát with stress marks
to feel with fingers; to touch
Also means
Salat also means scarce or in poverty when used as an adjective with shifted stress.
Usage Note
Salat in this sense means to examine something by touch — feeling its texture, temperature, or shape with the fingers. It is used in both practical contexts, like checking the ripeness of fruit, and medical ones, such as a doctor palpating a patient.
Examples
" Salatin mo ang prutas. "
Natural Translation
Feel the fruit with your fingers.
Literal Translation
Feel you the fruit.
" Malamig ang kanyang salat. "
Natural Translation
His/Her touch is cold.
Literal Translation
Cold the his/her touch.
" Marahang sinalat ng doktor ang tiyan ng pasyente upang malaman kung saan nararamdaman ang sakit. "
Natural Translation
The doctor gently palpated the patient's abdomen to find out where the pain was felt.
Literal Translation
Gentle felt by-doctor the abdomen of patient so-that know if where felt the pain.
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