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Bahasa Ambon - English Dictionary
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Adapted from Bahasa Ambon - English Dictionary - edited by Chaumont B. Devin
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For this dictionary, the letter, 'x', is used to symbolize the glottal stop. Bahasa Ambon has no short 'e' or schwa.
Note that the doubled vowel in the ultima of many words contracts to a single vowel when followed by another word.
For example, 'taloor' means 'egg,' whereas 'talor ayang' means 'hen's egg.'
Note: In Bahasa Ambon, the vowels, 'o' and 'u' are often freely interchangeable, but not always, the rules, as far as I know, as yet still undetermined.
Note: In Bahasa Ambon, there appears to be no distinction between the diphthongs, 'ae' and 'ai.'
To convert a word from standard Bahasa to Bahasa Ambon, in general one might employ the following shaky rules:
1. change short 'e' to 'a'. Examples: sendiri -> sandiri, sengaja -> sangaja, tempurung -> tampurung.
2. Redouble the vowels of stressed ultimate syllables. Examples: senang -> sanaang, betul -> batuul, tendang -> tandaang.
3. Drop terminal 'h' and 'k'. Examples: sungguh -> sunggu, pendek -> pende, lebih -> labee.
4. Change some 'ai' to 'e'. Examples: bagaimana -> bagemana, sampai -> sampe.
5. Convert some terminal 'u' to 'o': Example: burung -> burong, tempurung -> tampurong, sumur -> sumor, campur -> campor, sejuk -> sajoo.
6. Change some 'ai' to 'ae'. Examples: baik -> bae, naik -> nae, air -> aer.
7. Change some penultimate short 'e' to 'o'. Examples: tepuk -> topu, penuh -> ponu, sepuh -> sopu.
8. Change some penultimate short 'e' to 'i'. Example: pecah -> pica.
9. Change some penultimate short 'e' to long 'e'. Examples: berak -> bera, bengkok -> bengko.
Esoteric Abbreviations: PAN = Proto Austronesian, the reconstructed parent language of many peoples found in the region between eastern Africa and western South America.
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| kunang-kunang |
n. firefly. adj. dizzy. |
| kunci |
see konci. |
| kunci stori |
n. church business office. |
| kuning |
n. turmeric, Curcuma longa. adj. yellow. |
| kuningang |
n. brass. cf. tambaga. |
| kupa haji |
n. A flower, the Poinciana pulcherrima. |
| kupang |
n. 1. (archaic) money. 2. a kind of flower, esp. decorative or non-indigenous. 3. a kind of decorative shrub. |
| kupis |
vi. to strike a glancing blow (as of marbles in a game of marbles)(?) |
| kura |
v. bleach (wet clothes) by sunning. |
| kurang |
adj. insufficient. |
| kurangajar |
adj. vulgar, uncouth, obscene. |
| kurap |
n. ringworm (skin disease). |
| kurrrrr |
itj. sound made when calling chickens to their feeding. PAN kur, word used to call chickens, etc. PAN kuru, word used to call chickens, etc. |
| kursi |
n. chair. |
| kurus |
adj. thin, lean. PAN kuru, thin, lean. |
| kusu |
n. phalanger (a kind of marsupial). |
| kusu potar |
n. a large species of phalanger. |
| kusu-kusu |
n. 1. a kind of grass (cf. rumpu kusu-kusu). 2. an area covered by this kind of grass. Also alang-alang. |
| kutang |
n. a woman's slip. |
| kuti |
vt. 1. flick with the finger. 2. pluck, (a guitar string). |
| kutikata |
n. A tree with grape-like clusters of sweet, edible fruit, the Chinese laurel, Antidesma bunius. |
| kutu |
n. external parasite on an animal body. |
| kutu babi |
n. A blood-sucking tick, Acari. |
| kutu busu |
n. The bedbug, Cimex spp. |
| kutu kaluyu |
n. The remora, a marine fish of the family Echeneidae, the parasite fish attached to sharks. |
| kutu taloor |
n. nit, louse egg. |
| kwaliteit |
n. quality. |
| kwartu |
n. a tax levied by the Dutch |
| kwitansi |
n. receipt. |
| la |
adv. so. La se ada biking apa? = So what are you doing?
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