pungkal
Iban
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[edit]pungkal
- to do something for the fist time
- Berau ti dalam tajau nya baru dipungkal.
- The uncooked rice in that jar has just been taken out for cooking for the first time.
- Menua Batang Menjuai udah dipungkal sida ke tuai urung taun 1900 menya.
- The land of the Menjual River was opened by the elders for the first time in 1900.
- to initiate a fight or quarrel
- Dipungkal iya aku belaya jam kami betundi ngirup.
- He egged me on to quarrel while we were joking and drinking.