Tangle words starting with P

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• Paalu Clap
• Paamu Sweep . Pazme
• Paape The same, uniform, unvarying
• Paara Fingers
• Pada Wound, injury, sickness, illness, soreness
• Padau Four
• Padiddi used to describe a wide river, lake or ocean
• Pai Blame
• Paida Thanks. v
• Paithau A call
• Paiya Bargaining, selling
• Pakka Arm, upper arm
• Pakkupitho Bough, branch of a tree
• Pakkuthu Pour it ( usually of water or liquid)
• Pakuthgo Has/have poured it
• Palam Play
• Pali Sea, ocean, lake
• Palo Bath
• Paltha Court, place of gathering, meeting place
• Panai/panji Lying on ones back with face upward
• Pandi Stone
• Panpan wide
• Pandi – ago Appendix
• Pangei Surplus
• Panguthu Tear v
• Panjal-panjal Descriptive of the up and down movement of water, e.g. boiling water, or water…
• Papalu A tall black bird in the egret family
• Pappit Describing a narrow escape
• Para Hunting
• Param Sparks of wood when put into fire
• Pargau Sling
• Parindi Twins
• Parpadda Eight
• Parpar Ideoph
• Parpassi A kind of shrub that is tough to cut
• Parsaba Indirect talk, sarcasm
• Parthangu Spin it
• Parthango Has spun it
• Pas Describes a sudden and brief pouring of water on the ground
• Patha A variety of guinea corn
• Patham Sheath, scabbard
• Pathu Buy
• Pathukule cat
• Patte v To spread something on the ground so that it will dry (e.g. clothes or leaves)
• Pawuda Powder
• Payindi Six
• Payu Springle water on something
• Pe White
• Pebuk Dry leaves of cornstalks and of other plants easily burnt or blown by the wind
• Pedel – pedel The itchy, scratchy feeling of something that moves in the eye
• Peddu singl
• Pedduji Untied
• Peddukodok Feast held in memory of the dead
• Peeru v Spread
• Peerunpidi To pour something inadvertently on the ground
• Peethu Blow (whistle, horn, fire).Peethei
• Peetho Blowing chaff.Winnowing
• Pegum Light, very light, weightless, feathery, fluffy
• Pei Shoot of a plant; sprout
• Peje Food that is not properly cooked and which may therefore need to be cooked again
• Pek pieces of wood used with yoke to join oxen for ploughing
• Pekko Mistletoe: a parasitic plant that grows on various types of trees
• Pelau Seven
• Pele – pele slippers
• Pelem Lies, falsehood
• Pelempele Act of throwing, flinging
• Pelu v Throw it far away; fling
• Pelthu Throw, hit
• Pelthugo Has thrown, hit
• Pembe An animal of the antelope family
• Pemo Him
• Pen/ Penu Know
• Pengom Do not know
• Penu Know
• Penguru Turn it
• Pengurgo Has translated
• Penna Has come out
• Penthauwa Knowledge, understanding, ability, skill, wisdom
• Penthe’e Anti clockwise
• Per A rod usually used for measurement ( e.g. measuring the depth of a river)
• Pero A white stone that is easily crushed, used as chalk or local paint
• Peru Plead, beg, entreat
• Peru insist or pester someboby
• Perthu Over boil it
• Pessin Looks like, like
• Petere Moonlight
• Petette shrine of the Bekeri clan in Tal
• Petho Removing/sieving husk from seed using the wind and calabash/basin
• Pethu Go out
• Pethug pok Promise, pledge, assurance
• Petto Come out
• Pettu Harvest, Reap
• Petto Harvest, harvesting
• Pettei The harvest
• Petur Peter
• Pi Back, past, after, rear, behind, last
• Piji Your (sing. feminine) back
• Pii Nagging, troublesome, worrisome
• Pibuk Chicken/poultry lice/ fleas
• Pibulpok The urge to drink more water even when not thirsty
• Piddang A type of criket that lives on trees
• Pidi Place, where something is situated, position
• Pidindiyo Seat
• Pidin palam Playground
• Pidinpinon/Pidin palo Bathroom
• Pidin lagmuago Toilet
• Pidinwi Hot environment/weather
• Pidok Divination, healing; to foretell or forecast
• Pidog Monkey
• Pigar Peacock
• Pigarr swift flying birds
• Pigthu Wake up (a person), awaken
• Pigthei Awaking, waking, rousing
• Pigum – pigum serious searching/looking for something anxiously, or having difficulty in brea…
• Pije To squeeze
• Piju Smashed mud used for making pots
• Piijuu A type of shrub whose roots produce reddish liquid when crushed
• Piimo Them
• Piir Descriptive of take off flight of birds and insects
• Pilam – pilam A cool wind blowing gently
• Pik Arrow
• Pil/Pilo Flower
• Pilau The tribe of Jukun
• Pilo Pillow
• Pilimpikkum Gluttony, greed, greediness
• Pilom-pilom Cool breeze, wind blowing soothingly or lightly over the body
• Pilthing Flying expression used when in tales
• Pimana Backyard
• Pimo Tree or fruit of the deleb-palm
• Pin n Grinding stone
• Pin – dayo New grinding stone
• Pinei Everlasting, eternal, endless, always
• Pingping Sweet smell of roasted grain
• Pin/Pinnu Bathe
• Pinnon Bathing
• Pin/Pinei Since, always, everlasting
• Pinang Slow motion by small animals
• Pindikoli Tiny
• Pinjang Small pox
• Pinthu Open it a little/ slightly
• Pip , quant
• Pippi A traditional bag/box
• Pippilei Trying to over power
• Pippu Singe
• Pirgittik Small, tiny, minuscule, diminutive
• Pirguthu To persistently demand for something; to closely weigh up.; to examine or scrut…
• Pir Fly in the air
• Pirit-pirit Describes the energetic movement of a huge person
• Pirkwadi curled hair especially that of children
• Pir-pir Describes someone/something that is jumpy like a bird trying to fly
• Pirthange A way of cleaning the ear using feather
• Pissi Sun, the day/day time
• Pissu Interrogate, grill
• Pital Far place Pital.n. cover of barn made with grass
• Pithau Act of shielding, warding off an object, attack
• Pitho Tree
• Pithu Ward (it) off
• Pitil Good news
• Pithitti Very small, tiny; miniature things or beings
• Pitmana Family/clan tree where people gather to discuss, rest, or mourn the dead
• Pit – pit To take all/everything
• Pittadu Pl
• Pittum Tangle cucumber
• Piye The privileged, advantaged, fortunate class
• Piyip – piyip The blowing of a strong wind
• Piyu Receive, take, collect, accept
• Piji Receiving
• Pitho Go and receive it
• Pigom Has/have not received it/them
• Po Contracted form of Pok
• Po Edge, by
• Po Dough, mashed food
• Poam Well, fountain
• Poara Finger
• Poappe Exactly the same
• Pobature English language
• Pobawure Name of a village
• Pobe Old man
• Pobwa The mouth of a hole
• Pobuga Window
• Pobune Lower traditional council
• Podo Seed, seedling
• Poddo A period of time when a woman who has just given birth stays indoors and nurses…
• Podu Remove it
• Poduk/poduki Removing it
• Podukdilo To pray
• Podukimis Breathing
• Poduk – sau Thinning corn usually during the second weeding of the farm
• Po Hausa Hausa language
• Poi wild animal with grey hair
• Poido Forehead
• Pok Mouth
• Pokaye Worthless, useless
• Pokkidok Completely, totally, entirely
• Pokole Terraces
• Pokolin Name of an area that is marshy and good for rice farming
• Pokongo Camel
• Pok-pok Ideoph
• Pokwangli Name of a village
• Pokwara The name of a clan in Biliri
• Pokyo Dish or container used in serving food
• Polo Withered or spoilt remains of groundnuts etc. that have been selected
• Polthok About to fall while riding (bicycle) or while walking
• Polthu Discipline him/her/it
• Polthupolthe Discipline
• Pomana Door, courtyard/ frontage
• Pombo Rat
• Pombili A type of grass used for thatch roof
• Pon But, however, then
• Pongo The wooden part of an arrow
• Ponkong Interject
• Ponon Wonder, miracle
• Ponong – ponong The way a person walks when there is wound between thighs
• Ponar The highest traditional council
• Pool A wild plant like Irish potato but whose roots are eaten raw
• Poon Sow, plant
• Poonugo It has been planted/sown
• Popimo Name of an area
• Popolom Infertile land
• Popurum Knee
• Popurut Incinerator
• Por Bachelor, spinster or someone who was once married but is now single
• Por/Poro Germination, sprouting
• Pori/porthu Will sprout, germiuate
• Pooro A tree having no leaves in the rainy season
• Poruk A trap made of the hair of a horse and meant to catch birds usually at threshin…
• Porkottok Describing a door left ajar or hole with no cover
• Pos Full
• Posenje Money
• Poshiya Name of a village where the Mai Tangle’s palace is situated
• Posindi Heart, courage, boldness, spirit
• Posogon dwelling place or house
• Posondo Waist
• Po Tangle Tangle language
• Potena Threshing floor
• Potho A grass whose roots produce small, round edible roots
• Pothor Describes taste of fruits which are not ripe enough
• Pothos Mosquito
• Pot – pot Describes the strong sound of water being poured from a gourd or thin necked pot
• Potto Bring out of a hole, a container
• Potubur Stump.Pod potubur yauli sanan li pada tu mu
• Powidi Nipple
• Powinthiri Scorpion
• Poyali Name of a village
• Poyibi Season of harvest (between November and January)
• Poyoo Toes
• Poyur insect found in grain that has been kept for a long time
• Poyuu Queitely, silently, unannounced
• Pube Father
• Puddu Wash
• Puglo Swimming
• Puglum Of water flowing in abundance
• Pugo Bellows
• Pugu Add pressure, inflate, fill with air
• Puge Will inflate, blow up, add pressure.Pugko
• Pugum Blind, blindness
• Pugunthum Dream
• Pugut Dirth, filth
• Pukku Fan
• Pukkei Fanning/seperation of husk from grain
• Pukkum Petals of sorrel used for soup and boiled as drink
• Pula Scold, reprimand, admonish
• Pulempule A type of frog that is very big
• Pulo Swelling
• Pullu To extract nuts from the shells of groundnuts, locust bean fruits etc
• Pulthu Boil, simmer
• Pulthuk Part of the intestine that is towel like
• Pulthupok To bother someone, to disturb, especially a mother by kids
• Pulu Admonish, reprove, reprimand,
• Pummu Our father
• Puna A fat person or a bull that is getting ready to fight
• Punduga Gun
• Puput To come out of a hole in a haste
• Pura Clearing a land by removing the trees and shrubs
• Puru Cut trees, shrubs in a farmland
• Pure Grave, mound
• Pure Flower
• Puri A large pot, earthenware container
• Purmollo An endearing term for calling one’s friend
• Purum Knee
• Purus-purus Descriptive of something that can be easily crushed into pieces eg. dry bread
• Purut Garbage heap
• Pussi Lazy, indolent, sluggish
• Puthu Reach, arrive, get to
• Puthugom He/she/they has/have not reached
• Puuk Lung
• Puu Radish
• Puuju Squeeze, press Puujei
• Pu’uk Liver
• Pu’uri A small insect that produces honey in anthill
• Puwad Five
• Puyakthak Not sweet/tasteless
• Puyan Cocoyam
• Puyo Mouldy, decayed, decomposed
• Puyu Spew it out, spit it out