ilamon
English: Translation
To weed a rice paddy manually by hand, removing unwanted plants growing among young rice plants during the early stages of cultivation. Traditionally performed without a cutting tool, especially before the rice plants have grown sufficiently tall and dense to suppress competing weeds naturally.
Part of Speech
verb
Notes
Cultural note:
Ilamon denotes a specialized operation in traditional wet-rice cultivation rather than general weeding. The worker moves through the paddy and removes competing vegetation from among the developing rice plants.
Semantic note:
The defining features are manual removal, wet-rice cultivation, and weeds growing among young rice plants.
Compare:
- awan — cut grass or weeds without necessarily uprooting them.
- basabas — clear dense or obstructive vegetation.
- asada — hoe or cultivate soil, including weeding with a hoe.