A Kelabit - English Dictionary: A to F
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References:
- Blust, Robert (1993). Kelabit - English Vocabulary, Sarawak Mus. J. Vol. XLIV, No. 65 (New Series).
- Amster, Mathew H. (1995) - Kelabit/English English/Kelabit Glossary, Rurum Kelabit Sarawak, Kuching.
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Kelabit
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English
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Comments
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Comments
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aar |
knot |
abad |
a kind of weed commonly found in padi fields
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abang |
drain, ditch, canal |
abet |
rope, something used for tying |
abpang |
bund |
abu' |
son |
? = generic term of address for a small boy |
abuh |
ash |
aden |
starting point |
adet |
manner, custom, tradition, customary law, social conventions, culture |
adi' |
old secondary jungle (more than 10 years old) |
? = small |
adih |
type of Kelabit song |
ai' |
pity |
? = kindness |
akang |
scarecrow |
aken |
washing place by the river bank |
akep |
snail (a generic word) |
? = black snail found in rivers |
akep arur |
fresh water snail |
alad |
wall (see ngalad) |
alud |
dugout canoe, boat |
amug |
secondary jungle (less than 10 years old), previously farmed area, abandoned farmland |
anakadi' |
children |
? = small child |
anet |
basket for keeping wrapped rice |
apad |
mountain range |
apui (? = apuy) |
fire |
ba'o |
beads |
baa' |
padi field |
? = wet, damp ? = wet rice field |
baka |
wild pig |
bala |
news, fame, famous |
balang |
tiger |
baling |
type of Kelabit song |
bariw |
strong wind, storm wind |
bayeh |
crocodile |
belalung |
basket for keeping chickens |
bera |
milled rice |
? = generic term for rice |
berat |
heavy |
? borrowed from Malay |
beruh |
more, again, next, new |
? = just now |
? borrowed from Malay |
betik |
tattoo |
bigan |
plate |
? borrowed from Malay |
bua' |
fruit |
buan (? = bu'an) |
large basket used for harvesting |
bugo |
rice paddle |
? = (any) flat piece of wood used to stir rice |
bulan |
moon, month |
? borrowed from Malay |
bulan betung |
full moon |
burak |
rice wine |
busak |
wild flower, flowering |
buso |
a spear |
da'an |
branches of a tree |
da'un |
leaf used for wrapping rice |
? = generic word for leaf |
daan |
hut in rice field where people stay to scare away the birds |
? = a place where they sit and eat |
dalem |
deep |
dapur |
kitchen |
? borrowed from Malay |
dayeh |
upriver, towards the interior |
dedtur |
female (human), woman, girl |
dela'ih |
male (human), man, boy |
demulun |
slave, servant |
dengeruyung |
family, relative |
deramih |
rice straw |
? = rice stubble |
? geramih = a synonym |
diri |
house post, upright, pole, pillar |
dita' |
high, tall, upper |
ebpar |
loincloth |
enun |
what |
etuk |
heartbeat or pulse |
? = any kind of beat |