terminologies in bahay kubo

• Gililan


  Floor sills run around the outermost periphery of the soleras to support walls
• Halige


  House posts
• Kahab-an


  Connects the bottom ends of the rafters together
• Palatpat


  Bamboo strips tied on to the rafters with rattan vines as the main support of the roofing
• Palupo


  Ridge pole
• Patukaran


  Beam laid over the yawi at right angle, thus completing the perimeter
• Pawid


  Nipa shingles made by stripping leaves from the petiole and bending them
• Sahig


  Slatted floor. Rattan or bamboo strips tie the different parts to each other
• Sikang


  Poles which cross the rafters halfway down the slope
• Soleras


  Floor joists are laid
• Tarugo


  Wooden peg over a narrow bamboo slats
• Yawi


  Master beam, which runs from one, post to the other and is lashed to with rattan