ples

1. place

• bikples mainland
• ples balus airport (also epot)
  • Ol balus i save pundaun long dispela ples balus.
    Airplanes land at this airport.
  • Nem bilong ples balus long Honiara em Hendasen.
    The name of the airport in Honiara is Henderson.
  • Sakup i laik go long ples balus.
    Sakup wants to go to the airport.
• ples bilong kamapim kiau ovaries
• ples bung 1. a gathering or meeting place; 2. market
  • Yumi mas go long ples bung.
    We must go to the meeting place.
  • Yumi ken salim dispela pis long ples bung.
    We can sell this fish at the market.
• ples daun a valley
  • Wanpela raunwara i stap long ples daun.
    There is a lake in the valley.
• ples drai a desert, a dry place (of low rainfall)
  • Ol manmeri i no save wokim gaden long ples drai.
    People do not make gardens in dry places.
• ples hait a hidden, secret or shady place
  • Mitupela i gat wanpela ples hait bilong mitupela yet.
    The two of us have a secret place of our very own.
• ples kik soccer field (also sokafild)
  • Mipela i yusim ples kik bilong skul.
    We use the school’s soccer field.
• ples klia a clearing, an open place
  • mekim ples klia to reveal
  • I no gat wanpela ples klia long ples bilong mipela.
    There is no clearing in our village.
  • Ol polis i mekim klia ol rong bilong man long kot.
    The police revealed the man’s crimes in court.
• ples kol a cold place
  • Maunt Hagen em i wanpela ples kol.
    Mt Hagen is a cold place.
• ples kunai a grassland
  • Ol sutman i wok long kukim ples kunai long painim mumut.
    The hunters burned the grasslands to hunt bandicoots.
• ples malumalu 1. muddy place, swamp; 2. fontanelle, baby’s soft spot
  • Kar i go pas long ples malumalu.
    The car is bogged in the muddy place.
• ples mangro mangrove swamp
  • Planti kuka i stap long ples mangro.
    There are many crabs in the mangrove swamp.
• ples nating an unoccupied village or a place that is not being used
  • Em i no gaden, em i ples nating.
    It’s not a garden it’s empty land not being used.
• ples nogut an unsuitable, rugged place; a dangerous place; a place of ill repute
  • Long nait Pot Mosbi i wanpela ples nogut.
    At night Port Moresby is not a safe place.
  • Yumi no ken slip long dispela ples nogut.
    We cannot sleep in this dangerous place.
• ples tais a swampland, a marsh
  • Ol meri i go long painim papai long ples tais.
    The women have gone to find mushrooms in the swamp.
• ples tambu sacred site, forbidden place
  • Ol meri i no ken go insait long ples tambu.
    Women cannot enter a sacred site.
• ples tudak the dark

2. village

• as ples home town, home village, place of origin
  • as ples bilong gavman seat of government
  • as ples bilong mi my home town/village
  • Meri i go bek pinis long as ples bilong em.
    The woman has gone back to her home village.
• ples kanaka a village, native village (also as ples)
• ples nating, ples klia empty space, clearing, place where something can be easily seen
• ples nogut bad place, unhealthy or dangerous place
• tok ples mother tongue, local language, vernacular
  • Sampela pikinini i save rit na rait long tok ples.
    Some children can read and write in their vernacular.
• Yumi go lukim mama long ples.
  Let’s go see mother in the village.
• Dogare i go long ples.
  Dogare went to a village.
• Mi kam bilong lukim ples tasol.
  I’m just coming to have a look at the village.

3. region

• Laos i stap insait long saut is Asia ples.
  Laos is in the south-east Asian region.