EXPLORE FILIPINO WORDS IN DEPTH
EXPLORE FILIPINO WORDS IN DEPTH
a unit of measure for grain...
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FIL: Isang lumang yunit ng panukat para sa mga butil, tulad ng palay o mais, na katumbas ng dalawampu't limang (25) salop.
EN: a unit of measure for grain
This is the OG 'bulk order'. Before we were adding to cart by the kilo, farmers were measuring their harvest by the kabang. It's a measurement from our agricultural roots, a reminder of a time when wealth was counted in sacks of rice, not followers on TikTok. Mostly heard from your grandparents or in probinsya settings.
From an old Tagalog or other Philippine language term for a measure. The Hispanized spelling is 'cavan'.
This term is now considered archaic or technical in many urban areas, largely replaced by kilograms. One cavan of rice is now commercially understood as 50kg, though the traditional measure is 25 gantas (salop).
🇵🇭 Ang ani nila ay umabot sa isandaang kabang na palay.
🇺🇸 Their harvest reached one hundred units of unhusked rice.
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