Ten Beautiful Ilocano Words

I believe words are amazing form of self-expressions. They convey such beautiful messages. While waiting for someone earlier, I thought of writing Ilocano words randomly on a piece of paper. After about fifteen minutes, I came up with ten simple yet perfectly beautiful words.

These simple words will surely intensify the "ragsak" that you have in your life. I would blithely share them with you. 
 

1.       BIAG – life
 

 

the miracle of life...

 

 

 

                       photo courtesy of hannah, many thanks! (",)

 

 

isn't she sweet and adorable? 

my niece baby dreya,

you're an angel!

 

   

my sister's little man... 

 

 

a good friend ate marie got her

bundle of joy...

a sweet kiss for you adrian

                                

              

my sassy friend leah got a buddy,

miss you baby zax,mwah!(",)

 

 

2.       AYAT - love

    the highest and purest form of love

  

 

    a mother's love is the greatest love

in this world...

baby dreya with mommy hannah

 

  

my cousin jerry with daughter dreya,

nothing can reciprocate a father's love

 

and whatever you do, do it with LOVE(",)

  

3.       PAMMATI - faith

             my flame of faith... picture taken at home

 last december 2012  

 

 

       our lady of la leche is the patron saint

of pregnant

 and breastfeeding mothers

  

4.       KINAPAKUMBABA – humility

    when the rice stalk matures and ages, it bows
its head towards the earth, the fuller the
 rice tassels in each of the stalk grow,
the more they bend forward
- on learning HUMILITY from the rice stalks
 

planting rice is never easy, it takes

  patience, strength and humility to do it..

5.       ISEM – smile

    the sweet smile of a perfect couple...
my charming and good friend
dulce and hubby eric   

 

      a smile of a baby can melt one's heart...
baby gelo
 

      every smile has her own story to tell...
with my chsian chums...ma-i, anna and sha
 

  

smile is an age defying agent of beauty...

grade school friends...dra. laura, gina and mila 

                

6.       ARAPAAP – dream

  inside a mothers heart resides a great dream -
giving the best of everything for her child...
mommy anna with baby gelo

                                            

7.       NAMNAMA – hope

                                           the next generation ...
 

 

      the hope to be a better, stronger and
wiser  person 
 

 

8.       KATAWA - laugh

                      my nephew, the laughing bruno
        

one of those wacky fellows i've met,

his name is chris, you don't usually

laugh at his stories, you laugh

the way he tells...

 

 

9.       PAGAYAM - friend

                                                   with randz and heids

                                       with two admirable    

                    women...the dentists... dra. robby and

                                 lea... miss u both girlfriends(",) 

                                   

                                          a click by the sea...with joseph, jode,

                                      owa, lau, mila and glenn

 

 

                              night walk...with vanj, jons,

                                          susan and olivia

 

 

                                     two wonderful friends...

                                     good friends hyat and lei
                                                        
 

                                    sun kissed early morning with

                                 a gorgeous  friend sharon

                                      a good-hearted friend ...

                                    roda with hubby arnold
 

 

                                             great finds, good friends...

                                                        with dulce and ate marie

                                                                      with dazzle and anna
 

                                 with my co-leo, a good friend padi

 

                                        friends till' our gray hair day...

 

10.   RAGSAK - happiness
 

                                                          a sweet kiss of a brother

        

                                           my cute sixees, i miss you!

 

                                       so alive and kickin' creature

  

                                                             my frog prince...

 

                                                the green, green grass..

 

 

When a pen strikes...

 

How about you, what other beautiful Ilocano words do you know? (",)