Clothing, adornment, magic items
alawiyalawi���noun. start pattern used at centre of table mats. Anth: The name reflects the similarity between the star and the diamond shape in alawi nets See:�alawi�‘butterfly net’; kararrgararr�‘open pattern used in basket making’. Category:�Clothing, adornment, magic items.
arlampa���noun. ceremonial headband. Used by men and women in performing kurnapipi, wuwarr, mardayin and kinyngen warlk ceremonies. This is an 'outside' word; in the ceremony it has another name. See:�panang�‘headband type’; ayukayuk�‘headband type’. Category:�Clothing, adornment, magic items. Usage:�term used outside of ceremony
atjiyarrkarrk���noun. possessions of a livng person, refers to materials, blankets, clothes, not to large items such as cars, boats, etc. Category:�Clothing, adornment, magic items. See:�naputjanputjan�‘deceased's clothing/possessions’; manpurrwa�‘clothing’.
citation form���noun. decorative band of string worn crossed under breasts and around back in puberty ceremony of girl concerned. It is made by marnmarn and must not be seen by others while it is being made. Apangaka ayukayuk. ‘She will wear the ceremonial body band.’ See:�panang�‘head band’; arlampa�‘ceremonial headband’. Category:�Clothing, adornment, magic items.
Restrict:�Restrictions on inflection, due to selectional restrictions or lexicalised agreement sense number�•�noun. definition. scientific name. Usage:�usage An example of an inflected form ‘Gloss for form in lv field’. Mawng text of example ‘English free translation of example’. See:�see also - links to a related entry�‘gloss of see also field’. See main entry: For derived forms. Syn:�Synonym; Ant:�Antonym. From: Source language for borrowings. Note: notes (public) Anth: Anthropological notes (public)
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ilarranypany���noun. 1�•�centipede. Category:�Insects.
2�•�shape of small spiral starter piece of a basket, yangali. This shape is a spiral like muki but is elongated. Anth: The name refers only to the initial few layers of coils that are made to start off the basket. See:�muki�‘round starter spiral for basket’. Category:�Clothing, adornment, magic items.
imiyingkarl���noun. pandanus already prepared for basket making. Pandanus spiralis, Pandanus aquaticus. Anth: Prepared pandanus leaves for basket making have already been split into their two parts: kirrwara and ingijalk that are used in different parts of the basket. See:�murwala�‘pandanus tree (MA)’; murwala�‘Beach and River Pandanus’. Category:�Plant parts, Palms, Clothing, adornment, magic items.
irrkpalakaj���noun. clothes owned by a living person that have been used by them. Ngimany parak ja irrkpalakaj, alaj box. ‘I took the clothes, with a box.’ See:�naputjannaputjan�‘clothes of dead person’. Category:�Clothing, adornment, magic items.
iwijiwij���noun. 1�•�nose plug. Either the one worn in the nose or the one used to plug a dugong's nose so it will die quickly. See:�keport�‘pandanus nose plug’. Category:�Clothing, adornment, magic items, Tools, men's.
2�•�wooden needle. Used to sew up wilam 'bark canoe'. Anth: Used by dreamtime awungirrkpung to sew up stone in legend. See:�marrapirnta�‘pierced nasal septum’. Category:�Tools, men's.
jalwarra���noun. trousers. Category:�Clothing, adornment, magic items.
jungku���noun. hat. Nganartalku jungku marnpularr. ‘I am wearing an old hat.’ See:�kingartalku�‘wear hat’. Category:�Clothing, adornment, magic items.
kaliko���noun. clothes. Category:�Clothing, adornment, magic items.
kaliku���noun. material. Category:�Clothing, adornment, magic items. From: calico.
karlawijiwiji���noun. 1�•�soft part of the pandanus stem which can be eaten. It is also used as a green dye for making baskets. Pandanus spiralis, Pandanus aquaticus. See:�Murwala�‘Pandanus palm’. Category:�Plant parts, Palms, Plant food, Dye and fibre plants.
2�•�a type of stitch used in pandanus work. Category:�Clothing, adornment, magic items.
karlngirr���noun. 1�•�small circular body cicatrices usually across chest. See:�marnkitarr�‘tribal cicatrices below breast, also general term’; kanyjarrk�‘tribal cicatrices above breast line’. Category:�Clothing, adornment, magic items.
2�•�pandanus fruit. This name includes the entire fruit and also the white stuff inside the fruit segments that taste like peanut butter. Pandanus spiralis, Pandanus basedowii. Variant:�Iwaidja: ngalkbunu (fruit segments) and yiyandul (see). Tuka karlngirr ta taka. ‘This one is karlngirr.’ See:�Murwala�‘Pandanus palm’. Category:�Plant parts, Palms, Plant food. Anth: Can be eaten. You can suck on the outside of the fruit which is sweet and also cut the woody fruit segments open and eat the white stuff in the middle.
karlwa���noun. 1�•�yellow clay. Yamin ja kilartpin ta karlwa. ‘The other one painted himself with yellow clay.’ La anpalartpin karlwa mata murgun. ‘And paint yourself with raw yellow clay.’ La karlwa ngalartpin mata murgun. ‘And paint with clay, the raw one.’ See:�kurrut�‘red clay’; kujurn�‘white clay’; kurut�‘colour that pandanus can be dyed’. Category:�Soil, General ritual.
2�•�yellow colour. Nuwurnnyak karlwa. ‘It has yellow (stripe) (description of a fish with a single yellow stripe down the centre).’ Category:�Clothing, adornment, magic items, Colours and light.
kanyjarrk���noun. tribal cicatrices above breast line. See:�karlngirr�‘small circular body cicatrices usually across chest’; marnkitarr�‘tribal cicatrices below breast, also general term’. Category:�Clothing, adornment, magic items.
kangmungkurri���noun. shoes. Ja luluj kinimanpun manpurrwa tuka marryun la kinimanpun dress tuka warrawurnji? ‘Is the dog biting the clothes on the boy and biting the dress on the girl?’ Category:�Clothing, adornment, magic items.
kararrgararr���noun. 1�•�an open pattern used in basket making. Category:�Tools, women's.
2�•�fine, soft, (fine hair), nylon. See:�alawiyalawi�‘star pattern used in table mats’. Category:�Hair, Clothing, adornment, magic items.
keport���noun. Pandanus nose plug. Syn:�iwijiwij, marrapirnta. Category:�Clothing, adornment, magic items. Anth: placed in a pierced nose
kimarrawakpen���iv. wear something, be dressed. Category:�Clothing, adornment, magic items.
kinimanmakpa���tv. Restrict:�MA object 1�•�make string finger patterns. ngimanmakpa ‘I am making string patterns’. Nawuyuk kiwani kinimanmakpa. ‘Nawuyuk is doing string patterns.’ Nuka ja karrimanmakpa. ‘They're string patterns.’ Category:�Play, perform, joke.
Restrict:�ED object 2�•�(female) be prepared for the dance. Prepared by being appropriately adorned. Wularrut akamany manmakpaj. ‘She is now prepared for the dance.’ Akaman manmakpany ‘She is decorated.’ Kapan makpany nuyu? ‘Did you decorate that boy?’ See:�yirurryirurr�‘be dressed for ceremony’. Category:�Clothing, adornment, magic items.
kiniyirnpirrawun���tv. paint face. Iniyirnpirrawuning. ‘He was painting his face.’ Category:�Clothing, adornment, magic items.
kinnyirnparrki���tv. pierce nose. Kawa pata arrarrkpi kawunpirnparrki. ‘The men go and pierce their noses.’ Category:�Pierce, shoot, Clothing, adornment, magic items.
kingartalku���iv. wear (something) on the head, wear hat. kinyngartalku ‘she is wearing a hat’. Koyanti arrarrkpi kingartalku warak. ‘Look at the man wearing a hat.’ Kurlingka marryun kingartalku ja white hat? ‘Is the boy wearing a white hat?’ See:�kiyarntagali�‘wear (on feet)’; jungku�‘hat (masculine)’. Category:�Clothing, adornment, magic items.
kiyarni���iv. wear. Ma, anjarninga. ‘Come on, put it on.’ Category:�Clothing, adornment, magic items.
kiyarntagali���iv. wear (on feet), i.e. wear shoes. Anjarntagalinga. ‘Put (your thongs) on your feet.’ See:�kingartalku�‘wear on head’; kinilagalun�‘drag, push’. Category:�Clothing, adornment, magic items.
kujikang���noun. 1�•�kangaroo or wallaby pouch. Syn:�wakpart. Category:�Mammals.
2�•�pocket in a coat or dress or trousers. Syn:�wakpart. Category:�Clothing, adornment, magic items.
kujurn���noun. 1�•�white clay. See:�karlwa�‘white clay’. Category:�Soil, Clothing, adornment, magic items.
2�•�salmon Gum. Eucalyptus alba var. australasica, Eucalyptus apodophylla. See:�wurriny�‘Whitewood, Salmon gum, River red gum, Ghost gum’. Category:�Trees and bushes. Note: May cover other species with smooth, dull white bark too.
kurnkurnumarrij���noun. all kinds of softgoods, materials, clothing. Category:�Clothing, adornment, magic items.
lipa���noun. material, especially beautiful material. See:�manpurrwa�‘clothing’. Category:�Clothing, adornment, magic items, Other.
manimani���noun. necklace. Arringula manimani. ‘We make necklaces.’ Category:�Clothing, adornment, magic items.
mankumpurri���noun. a band consisting of a series of handmade strings worn around the neck of a widow. Walmuri awunimany rtilga. Minyngu kawani. Mankumpurri mannyutpan. ‘Walmuri brings them all together for a funeral. He puts on the mourner's neckband (mankumpurri).’ Note: sister-in-law, husband also wear it. Wear it for a while then they take it off and put it in a bag. Later they'd bury it usually. Or a particular relative might keep it. When the widow takes it off she can marry again. Not for ex-husbands though, so if woman is married again she doesn't wear it. Category:�Clothing, adornment, magic items.
manpurrwa���noun. clothing. See:�atjiyarrkarrk�‘clothing and possessions of a living person’; naputjanputjan�‘clothing and possessions of a dead person’; lipa�‘material, especially beautiful material’. Category:�Clothing, adornment, magic items.
marnkitarr���noun. tribal cicatrices below breast, also general term. Aputpangung pu marnkitarr. ‘They put marnkitarr on them.’ See:�kanyjarrk�‘tribal cicatrices above breast line’; karlngirr�‘small circular body cicatrices usually across chest’. Category:�Clothing, adornment, magic items.
marrapirnta���noun. 1�•�pierced nasal septum. Category:�Head.
2�•�wood plug used in piercing the nasal septum and keeping it open. Syn:�iwijiwij. Category:�Clothing, adornment, magic items.
3�•�place name, of tip where people camp at Wigu. Category:�Place names.
marrawaj���noun. 1�•�turtle meat from the breast. Category:�Reptiles and amphibians.
2�•�blanket or skirt which can be wrapped around the waist made from narranarra leaves, and is waterproof. This name is also used to refer to skirts made of pandanus. Category:�Clothing, adornment, magic items.
marriwi���noun. 1�•�tree species. Antiaris toxicaria. Ngana ngiwalalku marriwi ‘I'm going to get bark for making rope.’ Category:�Trees and bushes, Dye and fibre plants. Anth: The bark is stripped and dried and rolled into string to make fishing nets and to attach to turtle harpoon. Also used to make wurlungunngun dilly bags.
2�•�string belt worn around the waist, made from the marriwi tree. Category:�Clothing, adornment, magic items.
3�•�the fold of fat around the stomach of dugong, pig or goat. Category:�General.
maygu���noun. 1�•�thick hair belt worn around the waist. Category:�Clothing, adornment, magic items.
2�•�a big woven floor mat or woven sail. See:�karrurru�‘sail’. Category:�Tools, women's, Items for fishing.
maykuk���noun. a token of the deceased such as a bit of hair or clothing (wongpol) that has been covered in beeswax. Anth: When someone dies a person gets some of the deceased's hair or clothes and ties it with string dipped in beeswax (warnany). The bees go everywhere and so does the warnany. The maykuk is then given to an uncle or brother of deceased. They can't say no. They must take it and follow the culprit and spear him. As he lies dying, the maykuk is shown to him. This is payback. Nayuma innyakan nuyu maykuk Narut. Iwayan maykuk. ‘Sweetlips makes a maykuk for Narut. They see the maykuk.’ See:�wongpol�‘small piece of the deceased's clothing or possessions’; warnany�‘beeswax’. Category:�Clothing, adornment, magic items, Sorcery.
moko���noun. string belt made from narranarra reeds. See:�narranarra�‘reed type’. Category:�Clothing, adornment, magic items.
mukurrmukurr���noun. 1�•�tall ceremonial hat. Category:�Clothing, adornment, magic items, General ritual.
2�•�material with a lot of colour in it. Ja mukurrmukurr ja igarra mikpik. ‘The colourful material is very decorative, beautiful.’ Category:�Clothing, adornment, magic items.
murnta���noun. 1�•�clothing. Category:�Clothing, adornment, magic items.
2�•�a play spear with blunted end used by young boys. Puka pata marryun kawarnakanyjilin mata murnta. Kutpunayanti! ‘The boys are playing with the murnta spears. Look at them!’ Category:�Tools, men's.
naputjanputjan���noun. clothing of deceased person and other personal possessions. See:�atjiyarrkarrk�‘possessions of living person’; manpurrawa�‘clothing’. Category:�Clothing, adornment, magic items, Mourning.
nganypakan���noun. armband. La nganypakan. ‘And armbands’. Category:�Clothing, adornment, magic items. Anth: This was made from yurlwirr, a type of creeper, cane. It grows in patches in Warruwi. Others say they were made from winti or coconut
pajupaju���noun. coat, shirt, any type of top incudling t-shirts, singlets, long and short-sleeved shirts, jackets. Category:�Clothing, adornment, magic items.
paltak���noun. 1�•�biting bag, used in anger and fights. Anth: A little round bag with cotton wool inside, used to bite while fighting. See:�kanilakpanpun�‘have full cheeks, be chewing on some food, bite tongue or a biting bag’. Category:�Tools, women's.
2�•�Daisy Bates type of hat, because it looks like a biting bag upside down. Category:�Clothing, adornment, magic items.
panang���noun. band worn around the head ceremonially when a girl reaches puberty. Marnmarn kakaka panang la ayukayuk. ‘The cross-cousin makes the head band and body band.’ See:�arlampa�‘ceremonial headband’; ayukayuk�‘decorative band of string worn in puberty ceremony of girl concerned’. Anth: The band is made by marnmarn (female cross cousin). Category:�Clothing, adornment, magic items.
parnti���noun. bangle. Category:�Clothing, adornment, magic items.
patumang���noun. glass, mirror, glasses. Category:�Clothing, adornment, magic items, Other.
pelk1���noun. belt. Iniyarrun parak ingawirrung orka warlk ja pelk, la iminy arririj ja arrarrkpi kingurrin parak ingawung warlk. ‘He was chasing him, the belt got caught on the tree as he passed it and the man turned around, was running and hit a tree.’ Category:�Clothing, adornment, magic items. Note: Loan word, not recognised as Mawng word, although it has undergone a small phonological change
wakpart���noun. 1�•�kangaroo or wallaby pouch. Syn:�kujikang. Category:�Mammals.
2�•�pocket in a coat or dress or trousers. Syn:�wakpart. Juka ninypurnyak wakpart. ‘She has got a pouch (ie. she is a female wallaby).’ Syn:�kujikang. Category:�Clothing, adornment, magic items.
warlpungjurr���noun. possum fur covering for the body. Category:�Clothing, adornment, magic items.
warnany���noun. 1�•�beeswax, plasticine. Category:�Insects.
2�•�string covered with beeswax used to make maykuk, used to 'curse' someone. See:�maykuk�‘token of deceased’. Category:�Clothing, adornment, magic items, Sorcery.
wolk���noun. grease made from fat and red clay rubbed into young men initiates for important ceremonies. Category:�Clothing, adornment, magic items. Anth: It used to be a type of kangaroo fat (not mirnawt) but now buffalo fat or dripping may be used.
wongpol���noun. something which is cut from a dead person's possessions and mixed with beeswax. Variant:�Mayinjinaj term. See:�maykuk�‘wongpol covered in beeswax’. Category:�Clothing, adornment, magic items, Sorcery. Anth: This is sent to the relatives in order that the person responsible for the man's death may be put to death.
wun���noun. 1�•�eye. Kamangurrin nu wun. ‘You can't see properly.’ Kamawujpikpin wun. ‘Somebody's got a sore eye.’ See:�mamunpun�‘term meaning 'large eye', refers to a dreamtime being’. Awarran parak mampumany mata wun ngarrkarrk. ‘They took both his eyes.’ Category:�Head.
2�•�hole, spot. Muka mata warlk mata nawurnnyak wun ngaw. ‘The tree has an 'eye' (in the centre).’ Category:�Plant parts. Note: also used to refer to stingrays with a bumpy back - see entry for marukuk
coverb. Restrict:�VE object wear glasses. Ja arrarrkpi la warramumpik kampen mun kawukunyjilin ja kampenpun ‘The man and woman are wearing glasses, then they exchange the glasses.’ Kamannyen wun. ‘He wears glasses.’ Ngapi nganymen wun. ‘I wear glasses / my glasses.’ See:�kampenpun�‘glasses’. Category:�Clothing, adornment, magic items.
yirurryirurr���coverb. dressed up ready for a ceremony with ochre, bands etc. Wularrut anmany yirurryirurr. ‘You are already dressed for the ceremony.’ Kima yirurryirurr. ‘He's dressed up (ceremonially).’ See:�kinimanmakpa�‘(female) be prepared for the dance’. Category:�Clothing, adornment, magic items.
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