Category: K

car (also kar)

• draivim ka to drive a car
• ka i krungutim em to run over with a car
• planim ka to get a car stuck
• Ka bilong Popin i bagarap.
  Popin’s car has broken down.

cabinet, a locker, a cupboard (also sarang)

• Husat i holim ki long kabot?
  Who has the key to the cupboard?

cabbage.

See also: Cabbage in Papua New Guinea

1. cargo, supplies, luggage

• Balus i bringim kago.
  The cargo came by plane.

2. cargo cult

• kago bilong ol tumbuna gifts from the ancestors

See also: Vailala Movement

1. food, meat

• givim kaikai long to feed
• Gutpela kaikai i stap long ples.
  There is good food in the village.
• Man i go long maket bilong baim kaikai.
  A man is going to the market to buy food.
• kaikai bihain, switkaikai dessert
• kaikai long belo, kaikai long apinun dinner
• karim kaikai to bear fruit
• man bilong kaikai a bis eater
• taim bilong kaikai mealtime
• haus kaikai mess, dining room
• switpela kaikai dessert

2. to eat, to chew, to feed on

• gutpela long kaikai edible
• kaikai nabaut (eat about) to nibble here and there
• kaikai olsem rat gnaw
• kaikai samting nogut (eat something no good) to eat something harmful
• Mi kaikai pinis.
  I have eaten.
• Ol Hailans manmeri i laik kaikai buai.
  Highlands people like to chew betelnut.
• Ol pik i laik kaikai kaukau.
  Pigs like to eat kaukau.
• save kaikai man cannibal
• tambuim kaikai to fast

3. kaikai maus to kiss

4. kaikai lek oh damn!

See also: Traditional Foods and Cooking in Papua New Guinea

1. to bite something, to eat

• Pukpuk i kaikaim man.
  The crocodile ate the man.

2. to destroy

• Paia i kaikaim haus.
  Fire destroyed the house.

3. corrode

• Solwara i save kaikaim ain.
  Salt water corrodes iron.

kind, sort, type of; kind of (repeated for emphasis)

• dispela kain samting this sort of thing
• ol kain all kinds
• Stua i gat ol kain samting.
  The store has all kinds of things.
• ol kain liklik bisnis the kind of small business
• Mi laikim dispela kain laplap.
  I like this piece of cloth.
• putim kain kain to sort out
• No ken mekim kain tok olsem.
  Don’t say those kind of things.
• kain olsem like, same kind.

all sorts, different kinds

• Em kam lukim ol kain kain gutpela samting.
  She came to see the many good kinds of things.
• I gat planti kain kain aidia.
  There are lots of different ideas.

the left, the left side (also lephan)

• Em i save rait long han kais.
  He writes with his left hand.

cockroach (also kokoros).