OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

Entry record from Mead (1998a): Proto-Bungku-Tolaki

Page number: 455

*ngapa°

•  site along shoreline where boats are kept.

Note: MRN (D. Andersen 1995:39): ngapa ‘port’ (Muthalib, Pattiasina, et al. 1983:15) ngapa ‘beach’ «pantai»; KUL: ngapa ‘a beach, cove, or other break in the rocky coastline, where one puts out to sea or in to shore, and where one’s sampan is stored when not in use’; TOL (Muthalib, Alimuddin, Chalik, et al. 1985:84): ngapa ‘anchorage, port’ «pelabuhan» mengapa ‘to anchor, dock’ «berlabuh».