From root: saya
Conjugations
Past (Completed)
isinaya
i-si-NA-ya
wore as a skirt
Present (Incomplete)
isinasaya
i-si-na-SA-ya
wearing as a skirt
Future (Contemplated)
isasaya
i-sa-SA-ya
will wear as a skirt
Usage Note
Isaya is used when a piece of fabric or a traditional skirt is being worn or put on as a bottom garment. It is often encountered in cultural contexts or when describing the act of wrapping a cloth around the lower body to serve as a skirt.
Examples
" Isaya mo ang tela. "
Natural Translation
Wear the cloth as a skirt.
Literal Translation
Wear-as-skirt you the cloth.
" Gusto niyang isaya ang tela. "
Natural Translation
She wants to wear the cloth as a skirt.
Literal Translation
Want she wear-as-skirt the cloth.
" Sa mga lumang nayon, isinasaya ng mga babae ang isang malapad na tela kapag nagtatrabaho sila sa bukid. "
Natural Translation
In the old villages, the women would wear a wide piece of cloth as a skirt whenever they worked in the field.
Literal Translation
In the old villages, wear-as-skirt by-the women the one wide cloth when working they at field.
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