sampilungin
sampilungín with stress marks
to slap [someone] across the face
From root: sampilong
Conjugations
Past (Completed)
sinampilong
si-nam-pi-LONG
slapped across the face
Present (Incomplete)
sinasampilong
si-na-sam-pi-LONG
is being slapped across the face
Future (Contemplated)
sasampilungin
sa-sam-pi-lu-NGIN
will be slapped across the face
Usage Note
Sampilungin is the object-focus -in form of sampilong, a vivid term for a blow landing across the nose and mouth area — more specific in targeting than sampal. Informal and colorful in register, it is characteristic of dramatic storytelling about fights rather than formal or legal description, and rare outside colloquial and narrative speech.
Examples
" Huwag mong sampilungin ang bata. "
Natural Translation
Don't slap the child across the face.
Literal Translation
Don't you slap-across-face the child.
" Ayaw kong sampilungin ang bastos na bata. "
Natural Translation
I don't want to slap the rude child across the face.
Literal Translation
Dislike I to-slap-across-face the rude linker child.
" Galit man siya, hindi niya dapat sampilungin ang sinuman dahil masama ang manakit ng kapwa. "
Natural Translation
Even if he is angry, he shouldn't slap anyone across the face because hurting others is wrong.
Literal Translation
Angry though he, not he should slap-across-face the anyone because bad the to-hurt of fellow.
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