taklab
takláb with stress marks
a granary
Usage Note
Taklab refers to a traditional storage structure for grain — particularly rice — built in rural farming communities. It reflects the agricultural heritage of the Philippines where proper grain storage was essential to a family's survival between harvests. The word is now largely regional and archaic in urban usage.
Examples
" Puno ng palay ang taklab. "
Natural Translation
The granary is full of rice.
Literal Translation
Full of rice the granary.
" Puno ng palay ang taklab nila. "
Natural Translation
Their granary is full of rice.
Literal Translation
Full of rice the granary their.
" Tuwing tag-ani, pinupuno ng magsasaka ang kanyang taklab ng palay upang may makain ang pamilya hanggang sa susunod na anihan. "
Natural Translation
Every harvest season, the farmer fills his granary with rice so that the family has food to eat until the next harvest.
Literal Translation
Every harvest-season, fills the farmer the his granary of rice so-that has food the family until the next harvest.
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