bab, n.area/space above; top; surface.
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bebul a daobexpr.surface of the sea.
bebul a tebelexpr.top of the table.
Examples:
> The top of the table has gotten wet.
> But the Most High God does not live in houses built by human hands.
> The clock is up there above me.
> Droteo lives upstairs.
> Tony is higher in the rank.
Proverbs:
> Like the gods of Ngebukd, completed up above.
As part of the festivities of a village feast or in celebration of some event, such as the completion of a community hall, Palauan young people produce a variety of named dances. One type of dance, called ruk, was never conducted in Ngebukd (in Ngaraard, northern Palau). It was said that the gods of the village had done their dancing in heaven before coming to earth and thus it was not necessary for the people of Ngebukd to dance. The saying pertains to a completed task, indicating to another that the work need not be repeated.
> You're like a fish bait which can be eaten or pecked from the top and bottom.
You don't know what to do because chores keep coming in from left and right.
More Examples:
> Put the book on top of the dest
> The drum was overfull and flowed over the top.
> What is on the table or desk?
> Put the pencil on top of the book.
> Lurvey bent down and removed Wilbur's medal from his neck and hung it from a nail at the top of Wilbur's pen.
ngar, v.s.be (located); exist; be alive.
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ngar er a bab a rengulexpr.conceited; disrespectful; proud; arrogant; haughty; snobbish.
ngar er a bab el chadexpr.one's superior; wealthy/well-to-do person.
ngar er a eou a rengulexpr.(person is) humble/respectful.
ngar er ngiiexpr.there is.
ngar kerexpr.where is it.
Examples:
> Is there anyone from Kayangel who has ever had leptospirosis?
> If there are fifty innocent people in the city, then ...
> Tony is higher in the rank.
> Whenever I was just patient and waited for a little while, I was certain to have a good idea.
> Until what time will they be here?
Proverbs:
> Like coconut water, passing from darkness to darkness.
Water, drunk from a coconut, passes from the dark of the nut to the dark of the mouth. Some discussions, such as those of village leaders, are secretively passed from mouth to mouth without public discussion.
> Are there any who spear at the ground and miss?
Used to describe something that is easily accomplished.
> From the mature tree the sapling dribbles.
Eseos is a mature tree, dalm is a sapling; olengimech means to drip, drizzle, or dribble. Application is to the similarity of the child to its parents, generally its father.
> To eat and drink by the mast tip.
The ucharm (bird) is the hardwood tip at the top of the canoe mast. The person to whom the idiom is applied is accused of thriving on gifts from other places. Particularly it may be applied to persons of a highranking village who rather expect that visitors in canoes from other villages will come provisioned with gifts-thus, those who watch for the canoes. Sometimes the idiom goes: Ngkora chad ra Oreor, "Like the man of Koror," with reference to the high ranking community of Koror in central Palau.
More Examples:
> There's an earthquake.
> Your picture at the rock island, what are you sitting on? Is it bamboo raft or tin canoe?
> Did you descale the fish on the outdoor prepairing area?
> Which direction is Yigo located on the map?
> The wind is coming from the northwest.

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