root word: kayod (grate, scrape)
pangkayod: literally “for scraping” or “for grating”
It’s the term to refer to a tool that is used for grating or scraping something off something else. You scrape the flesh off the inside of a fruit like a melon. You grate small pieces or slivers of cheese off a large hunk of cheese.
pangkayod ng milon: cantaloupe scraper
pangkayod ng keso: cheese grater
pangkayod ng buko: tool used for scraping young coconut off shell
pangkayod ng niyog: implement for grating tough coconut meat off shell
Sometimes, “for shredding” or shredder.
This is usually handheld, as opposed to the kudkuran, which often refers to larger equipment, though also rudimentary.
callus “grater” / “shredder”
tool for removing calluses
There exists the phrase “pangkayod ng tubig” (tubig = water), which is being used as a native Tagalog translation for “windshield wiper” but no one really says it that way. Filipinos just use the English.
Turn on the windshield wiper.
kinakayuran
