Other
arawirr2���noun. gun. La nuka ja arawirr, ja kiwen karlurri. ‘And this is a gun, used to shoot animals.’ See:�arawirrarawirr�‘Worm Snail’. Category:�Other.
arrapalen���noun. plane. Yanat kiwken kinnyayan ja arraparlen kingurrinka. ‘He is looking and can see the plane coming.’ Category:�Other.
irri���noun. 1�•�oil, fat, hair oil, fuel. See:�kinilangani. Syn:�murrkaj. Category:�Fire, Other, Hair.
2�•�stew. Category:�Illness.
coverb. Restrict:�LL object (grease) softening, melting. Kanilangani irri. ‘It (fat) is melting. For example when you cook meat and the fat starts bubbling out, or when marge or butter melts.’ Category:�Cooking.
jalngarr���noun. 1�•�observation post or seat in a tree. Used when waiting to trap geese. Muka mata jalngarr kamalangali. ‘This is an observation post.’ Category:�Hunting.
2�•�pilot's seat in an aeroplane. Category:�Other.
jampakang���noun. sheet iron. Category:�Other.
japirlanta���noun. pannikin. Category:�Other.
jikuna���noun. schooner. Category:�Other.
jirlijirlikang���noun. pistol. Category:�Other.
jurra���noun. any type of thing made of paper such as a photo, a poster, a book, a letter, a scrap of paper, a manuscript etc. Category:�Other.
kalannyun���noun. 1�•�Window Pane Oyster, a large flat round oyster. Typelacuna placenta. Variant:�Iwaidja: kalanyun. Nuka ja kalannyun. ‘This is kalannyun.’ Anth: Traditionally used to cut the umbilical cord of newborns. Category:�Shellfish.
2�•�shoulder blade. See:�muki�‘belly button’. Category:�Organs and torso.
3�•�hard cash, money. Syn:�rrupiya. Category:�Other.
kaliwang���noun. cane knife. Category:�Other.
kampenpun���noun. glasses, reading glasses. Ja arrarrkpi la warramumpik kampen mun kawukunyjilin ja kampenpun ‘The man and woman are wearing glasses, then they exchange the glasses.’ Kampenpun. ‘Their glasses.’ ja kampenpun. ‘their glasses’. kampen wun ‘eyeglasses’. See:�wun (kinnyen)�‘wear glasses’. Category:�Other.
kapaja���noun. 1�•�plant which produces a cotton wool-like substance in its seed- box. Gossypium hirsutum. Anth: Fruit are eaten by children. See:�nganyumparrga�‘wild cotton’. Category:�Trees and bushes, Plant food.
2�•�cotton wool. Category:�Other.
kapalapipi���noun. a large boat, ship. Category:�Other.
karranyjing���noun. bin. Category:�Other. Note: May be Macassan
karrung���noun. sacking bag. Category:�Other.
katang���noun. carpenter's plane. Category:�Other.
kawa���noun. large Macassan pot. Parang apuwujpakpangung apulatikang tuka mijang - kawa, waya, pa awulatpangung parak. ‘They used to load the praus with pots and ironware and come down.’ Category:�Other.
kayungkayung���noun. paddle, oar, the type used in a dinghy rather than a dugout canoe. Arrarrkpi kilatin tuka kapala, jara ja kinnyatpi kayungkayung. ‘A man is in the boat and another is holding a paddle’. Syn:�miri. Category:�Other.
kumpang���noun. Macassan type pottery container. Category:�Other.
kurrampalk���noun. house. Category:�Shelter, camp, house, Other.
larrwa���noun. Macassan pipe. See:�paj�‘pipe’. Category:�Other.
lipa���noun. material, especially beautiful material. See:�manpurrwa�‘clothing’. Category:�Clothing, adornment, magic items, Other.
rlanjirrang���noun. lamp. Category:�Other.
rlatung���noun. lead. Category:�Other.
manjawak���noun. knife. Syn:�marrimarri. Category:�Other. Note: alternative pronunciation used in fast speech
maryawu���noun. 1�•�Paperbark tree. This term also refers to its bark alone which is used for many things. It is used in cooking and to make shelters. Melaleuca argentea and others. Variant:�Iwaidja: Martiyawu. Maryawu apakan. ‘They made a shelter of Paperbark.’ Mata maryawu naka mampakangung yaw tuka wupaj tuka marruny mawng purlup. Kayirrk la mampuwinypuning larnngalk. Yara tuka wurl ta anyung ta wupaj tuka maryawu kamalangali la kama jurr mata mawiya, kawani purlup pata arrarrkpi pata kiwatpi jilimin nakapa kiniwunpu ja jilimin. ‘They used to put the Paperbark in water in a container made of Palm tree leaves to soak. Then they would wash out their ears (with the water it had soaked in). Sometimes in a waterhole where there are Paperbark trees growing and the leaves fall in the water, people with ringworm will swim to cure themselves.’ See:�marterr�‘large Paperbark trees’; warral�‘Red Paperbark’; jijirok�‘brackish water from a paperbark tree’; iwarnjiwarn�‘a model made of paperbark’; irraj�‘torch made from paperbark’; wulurru�‘paperbark torch, roll of paperbark’. Category:�Trees and bushes, Medicine, Shelter, camp, house.
2�•�playing cards. See:�warral�‘large paperbark tree’; jijirok�‘brackish water from a paperbark tree’. Category:�Other.
warra maryawu���area of paperbarks. Category:�Trees and bushes.
marrimarri���noun. knife. Variant:�Mayinjinaj form. Syn:�manjawak. Category:�Other.
mingkaga���noun. fence. Kamalangali mingkaga. ‘There is a fence standing there.’ Category:�Other.
mitjang���noun. Macassan prau. Category:�Other.
mutika���noun. motor vehicle. Category:�Other.
muwarn���noun. 1�•�sun. See:�rturrk�‘get very hot’. Category:�Sky.
2�•�timepiece - i.e. clock or watch. Category:�Other.
3�•�bee, fly. Anth: It is around in the very hot season and makes a humming sound, and does not have a sting. See:�kurnpirripirri�‘salt water crocodile’. Category:�Insects.
paj1���noun. European style pipe. See:�larrwa�‘Macassan pipe’. Category:�Other.
pajaway���noun. pot, container. See:�panikin�‘pot, container’. Category:�Other.
pajukaling���noun. large tin, kerosene drum. Category:�Other.
pakirrikirri���noun. chainsaw. Category:�Other.
palaji���noun. bag, sack. Used for flour bags and the type of cloth sacks that were used in early missionary days. Category:�Other.
palapala���noun. 1�•�a large, flat-surfaced piece platform including the platforms traditionally built in Stringybark houses or a bed or table. See:�nawanpal�‘flat clapsticks’. Category:�Shelter, camp, house.
2�•�barge. Category:�Other.
panikin���noun. mug, billy, bowl, any type of container that can hold fluids. Variant:�from English panikin. Syn:�pajaway. Category:�Other.
pantirrang���noun. flag, rag. Category:�Other.
parrajang���noun. fireworks. Category:�Other, Fire.
pating���noun. box, container. Category:�Other.
patumang���noun. glass, mirror, glasses. Category:�Clothing, adornment, magic items, Other.
pujurlung���noun. bottle. Nakapa ngeyan pujurlung kernti tuka stool. ‘I can see that a bottle is sitting on a stool.’ Category:�Other.
punarrang���noun. arrow. Category:�Other.
purr���noun. brace and bit. Category:�Other.
purrujang���noun. rag. Category:�Other.
purrupurrukang���noun. carrying bag made out of cloth. Category:�Other.
putmanta���noun. a case, portmanteau. Mamputpan purup putmanta. ‘They put the case on its base (from a standing position on its side)’. From: English: portmanteau. Category:�Other.
puyang���noun. cigarette paper. Category:�Other.
rrapi���noun. 1�•�file. Category:�Other.
2�•�rough part of a stingray's back. Category:�Fish bodyparts, Tools, men's. Anth: Used to be cut out and tied onto a flat stick. It was then dried out and used to file wood smooth eg. in making of spear shafts, heads, barbs and pipes.
rrupiya���noun. money. Syn:�kalannyun. Category:�Other.
taypaput���noun. pearling lugger. Category:�Other.
rtangarrtangarr���noun. cartridge. Nakap kilatin imurra rtangarrtangarr. ‘There are a lot of cartridges in (the gun).’ Syn:�wun nuyu. Category:�Other.
waliman���noun. axe. Name means a tomahawk sized axe but is often used for a larger axe. It can be used for any type of axe but can also be used to mean a metal axe, not a stone axe. See:�tatken�‘stone axe’; karramalk�‘stone tomahawk’; juwang�‘large axe head’. Category:�Tools, men's, Other.
waryat���noun. 1�•�stone, rock, mountain. Anth: Most important totem of Yarrigarnkurrk totem group. Often used as name for that totem group kapa tuka waryat ‘there in the stone country’. See:�murrgun�‘earthen hill’; kamung�‘sandhill’; waryatparyat�‘stone country’. Category:�Soil, Large features.
2�•�money, cash. Kiki ja waryat? ‘How much is that (money)?’ Category:�Other.
3�•�a fish type which has a very hard skin, ?Leather fish. Anth: It has a small head and four ridges along its body. The flesh and liver are edible. Category:�Fish.
waya���noun. ironware, anything made of iron. See:�wirlmurr�‘iron’. Category:�Other. From: English 'wire'.
wikurlk���noun. 1�•�Native Asparagus, a prickly type of fern. Protasparagus racemosus. Variant:�Iwaidja: Nakinaki or Lililk. See:�mankawiny�‘fern’. Category:�Small plants, Medicine, Toxic plants. Anth: Has prickles on it. Grows well on Goulburn Island. There are two types that grow in different areas. Used to treat diarrhoea and stomach pain, cough, severe pneumonia and asthma. Preparation: dig up roots. Peel the bark and crush. Boil in water until it is a pink liquid. Rub onto stomach or chest. Liquid is also used to treat scabies. Poisonous if taken internally.
2�•�crown of thorns worn by Jesus in the bible. Category:�Other.
wirlmurr���noun. iron, something made out of iron. Wularrut inypularrnganiny ja wirlmurr la mampawani mata layt. ‘A long time ago they put up the light-poles (iron) for light.’ See:�waya�‘iron’. Category:�Other.
wirlparra���noun. trailer. Ja wirlparra ja karrunnyarkpa. ‘A trailer carries us (about).’ Category:�Other.
wun nuyu���noun. 1�•�cartridge. Naka kilatin wun nuyu. ‘(The gun) has a cartridge in it.’ Syn:�rtangarrtangarr. Category:�Other.
2�•�small hole in the sand that indicates a shellfish is living underneath. wun nuyu ngarlwak (Mud Mussel) ‘the hole made by ngarlwak’. Anth: The holes look different, depending on the type of shellfish that has made it. Category:�Shellfish.
wurnin���noun. a canvas, tarpaulin. Variant:�used by 'old people'; newer word is rtapulin. Category:�Other.
yurrjurr���coverb. 1�•�fall off. Marrany yurrjurr "Ma arrkpana, mawuga arriwanama." ‘It falls off (the ngarntawl seed), "O.k. lets go and get mawuga crabs".’ Category:�Vertical motion.
2�•�save money. Kingaka yurrjurr ja rrupiya. ‘She saves her money.’ Category:�Other.
Restrict:�ED object 3�•�unload. Kapaka yurrjurr Nagalarramba ‘They're unloading their stuff at Nagalarramba.’ See:�jurr�‘fall’. Category:�Vertical motion.
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