Nafe (Kwamera)

adj. cooked, done, ready to be eaten, ripe (can be used in the imperative, for example speaking to food, "be ready!"

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v. eat food after drinking kava

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v. unwrap (as a tuber pudding), open (as an earth oven)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v. bite, chew

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

v. hold (food) in a leaf (as do circumcised boys while in seclusion), shield so as not to pollute

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

adj. be spoiled, rotten, stink (as food)

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

v mix together (foods), eat two foods at one

Speaker: Wahe Martial

make fire

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Speaker: Martial Wahe

Rough triggerfish, poisonous

Example: A poison fish which can sometimes be eaten. Photo by Ross Robertson / Shorefishes of the tropical eastern Pacific online information system, License: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Canthidermis maculata via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

n. baked vegetable food eaten along with meat, food baked in an earth oven (other than tuber puddings)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n beef

Speaker: Martial wahe

n. laplap leaf

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Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. homemade alcohol from kahimaregi coconut water, plus yeast, water, optionally pineapple juice, drunk on special occasions like Christmas

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[nakwanumɨn] rock earth oven

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Speaker: Martial Wahe

n milk

Speaker: Martial wahe

big food festival

(Bislama) bigfala kakae

Speaker: Martial Wahe

kind of laplap (food)

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n. kind of laplap made from bananas and coconut

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Speaker: Martial Wahe

[nɨpeiaka] n. dry coconut husk

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Speaker: Martial Wahe

meat

Speaker: Martial wahe

tuber pudding

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n vegetable

Speaker: Martial wahe

earth oven

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Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. 1. kind of tree, 2. bark container used to wrap baked food

Speaker: Martial Wahe

coconut half shell for drinking kava

Speaker: Martial Wahe

boiled coconut milk

Speaker: Martial Wahe