OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

Dalrymple & Mofu (2009/10): Biak

Original citation: Dalrymple, Mary and Suriel Mofu. 2009-2010. Biak Toolbox dictionary database. URL: http://biak.clp.ox.ac.uk/
Notes on this source: This lexicon has been edited to reduce the large number of unadapted borrowings from Malay/Indonesian that were included. To see these, consult the original files.

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Headword IPA Glosses
ababenababen

adv. ‘careful’

abrisabris

n. ‘grass’

abyababjab

n. ‘cave’

adoado

v. ‘descend’

adwaradwar

n. ‘poisonous plant’

afyakafjak

n. ‘pillow’

aiai

n. ‘wood’

aibeaibe

n. ‘coffin’

aimunaimun

n. ‘fire wood’

ainain

v. ‘feel disgusted’

ainkyonainkjon

n. ‘stick’

aipokmaipokm

n. ‘dead person’

airaresairares

n. ‘wood roots’

aiwanaiwan

n. ‘animal’

akak

adv. ‘also’

amberamber

adj. ‘foreign’

amkamk

v. ‘hold’

amnamn

n. ‘bamboo’

amomamom

v. ‘clear a garden’

amperamper

n. ‘palm branch’

amsamamsam

n. ‘thorns sea’

anan

v. ‘eat’

anananan

v. ‘eat continuously’

ananunananun

n. ‘message’

andirandir

prep. ‘beside’

andoiandoi

n. ‘seaweed’

anenfanenf

adj. ‘asleep’

anggaraŋɡar

v. ‘lie’

angginemaŋɡinem

n. ‘message’

angkankenaŋkanken

n. ‘moss’

ansanansan

n. ‘palm trunk floor’

anumanum

n. ‘wood’

apap

v. ‘say’

apenapen

n. ‘roast’

apusapus

n. ‘grand parent, grand child’

apyamapjam

n. ‘burning wood’

arar

v. ‘scream’

araara

Exclamation. ‘pity’

arekarek

v. ‘bite’

ariari

Exlamation. ‘please’

ariari

n. ‘sunday’

armakerarmaker

1. n. ‘scabies’

2. v. ‘have scabies’

arobaaroba

Exlamation. ‘No’

aronaron

v. ‘swim’

aroraror

n. ‘request’

arwoarwo

adv. ‘morning’

aryawinarjawin

n. ‘medicine’

aryesarjes

n. ‘fish net’

askiaski

n. ‘grace’

asuserasuser

n. ‘follow repeatedly’

auau

pron. ‘2SG’

awakawak

n. ‘orphan’

awasawas

v. ‘pass’

awerawer

adj. ‘deaf’

awerawer

NEG. ‘not’

awinawin

n. ‘mother’

awosawos

v. ‘speak’

ay-aj-

pron. ‘1SG’

ayaaja

pron. ‘1SG’

ayanajan

v. ‘1SG POSS GIV’

ayarajar

n. ‘fence’

ayisajis

n. ‘grater’

ayunajun

v. ‘sail’

baba

conj. ‘because’

baba

v. ‘big’

baba

adv. ‘not’

babbab

n. ‘below’

babarbabar

adj. ‘scaby’

babarababara

n. ‘scabies’

babebabe

n. ‘matters having to do with’

baberibaberi

adv. ‘not at all’

babirbabir

v. ‘recognize’

babobabo

adj. ‘new’

baburbabur

n. ‘chase’

badirbadir

v. ‘reveal’

baibai

NEG. ‘not’

baimbaim

adv. ‘not yet’

bairbair

v. ‘watch’

bakbak

v. ‘open’

bakdibakdi

n. ‘pumpkin’

bakenbaken

n. ‘body’

baknbakn

n. ‘back part of the body’

balokbalok

n. ‘log’

bambam

n. ‘incline’

banban

n. ‘part’

banban

v. ‘wake some one up’

banyobaɲo

n. ‘in law’

barbar

v. ‘hold’

barbar

n. ‘part’

barakasbarakas

n. ‘blessing’

barapenbarapen

v. ‘roast’

barasbaras

n. ‘shout’

barborbarbor

v. ‘do bad things’

barburbarbur

n. ‘departure’

bardaibardai

v. ‘boast’

barkbark

v. ‘stay, lie’

baroserbaroser

n. ‘desire’

barsabarsa

DET. ‘last’

baryabarja

adv. ‘thus’

basbas

v. ‘open’

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