tarok
English: Translation
planted-rice-paddy field or the act of manually planting the same
Notes
tarok
v.; n.
VERB
- to transplant rice seedlings into a flooded or prepared paddy.
- to establish a rice crop by transplanting young seedlings.
NOUN
- the planting or transplanting of rice.
- a planted rice paddy; a field in which rice has been transplanted.
USAGE
Nagtarok sira nin rarogi.
“They transplanted rice seedlings.”
Tarok na ana oma.
“The rice paddy has already been planted.”
DERIVED FORMS
tomarok (t- + -om- + tarok) AF
to transplant rice.
nagtarok (nag- + tarok) AF
transplanted rice.
itarok (i- + tarok) PF
to transplant rice.
tinarok (t- + -in- + tarok) PF
transplanted.
pagtarok (pag- + tarok)
rice transplanting.
NOTES
Unlike tanem, which refers generally to planting, tarok is restricted to the planting of irrigated rice, particularly by transplanting seedlings into prepared paddies.
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