tarok

tarok

v.; n.

VERB

1. to transplant rice seedlings into a flooded or prepared paddy.
2. to establish a rice crop by transplanting young seedlings.

NOUN

1. the planting or transplanting of rice.
2. 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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