Badok, Ilokano Lexicography


BALIKAS ITA NGA ALDAW. (334) -- BADOK 1. BADOK 2

(Para kadagiti taga-Badoc, Ilocos Norte. Mostly likely--don't look elsewhere, please!--this is where the name of your town comes from. Do not follow the wild imagination of those who cannot prove anything.)

badok (1) 1. (the act of) putting a cover on the ridge of a roof 2. (the act of) putting in a thatch on the ridge of a roof, for protection, or to make the roof more long-lasting 3. cf. badokan, agbadok, bumadok, mangbadok, panagbadok, panangbadok

badok (2) 1. cudweed 2. everlasting cudweed 3. weedy cudweed 4. Gnaphalium luteoalbum, s. n., or Gnapalium indicum, s. n.

Source: A Solver Agcaoili, Contemporary English-Ilokano Dictionary/Kontemporaneo a Diksionario nga Ilokano-Ingles.

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