OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

•  huis met een dubbele bamboezen omwanding, welker ruimte met koraalstenen opgevuld en die van binnen en van buiten met een dikke kalklaag is bepleisterd, dergelijke woningen hebben het voorkomen van steenen huizen en van daar wellicht de zonderlinge naam.

Note: (usually folah fargol, since those are most commonly found on Tidorese territory), house with a double bamboo wall, filled with coralite and plastered inside and outside with a thick layer of lime; such houses look like houses of brick and perhaps that is the reason for the strange name. Campen, in Tiidschr. Kon. Inst., 4th series, Vol. VII, p. 164, says that these houses are only proper to the districts of Maba, Weda and Patani, which is an error since they are also found, among other places, in the capital Tidore and some places on Ternatese Halmahera; however, he does not give the names