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TERNATE THE TERNATESE LANGUAGE
faici, child; faici si fofoheka, women and children.
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fajaro, I; personal pronoun feminine singular, of an inferior to superiors and then usually with
to, e.g. fajaro to oki, I drink. Before nouns it becomes a possesive pronoun, e.g. fajaro ngofa, my
child.
fajaro ngomi, we; feminine plural and with mi added, e.g. fajaro ngomi mi dero, we got.
fakat, to agree, deliberate (from Arabic).
falah, house, dwelling; falah mare, brick house; falah ngasu-ngasu, pile-dwelling; falah fargol,
see fargol; falah gabah, house with gabah walls; falah Sultan, Sultan’s house or rest-house in
the country.
falah-jawa, the compound in the capital belonging to the house of the Sultan of Tidore where
there are also many other houses.
falalum, slave.
Falarah, name of a sub-kampong of Soahsio in the capital, where the bobato ranks first.
fane, to come up, rise (of the moon); arah ifane futu nyagimoi, the tenth night of the waxing
moon.
fangare, I, me; personal pronoun masculine singular, of lower people to superiors (also
sometimes ngofangare); for emphasis sometimes to is added, fangare to or ngofangare to, e.g.
mai ngofangare to sipodo khabar bato, I will not dwell on this.
fangare ngomi or ngofangare ngomi (more polite to superiors), we, us; masculine plural and
for emphasis with mi, e.g. fangare ngomi mi tagi kage, we are going there. Also possessive
pronoun, e.g. fangare oti, my proa.
N.B. Ngori also means “we” but more haughtily, as from the Sultan to his subjects, similar to
the Malay kita.
fango, payment, to pay; fango gurua, harbor-fees. This was abolished at the capital after
Ternate was declared a free port in 1854; at Tobungku and Banggai they are still known as
labuh batu or anchorage fees, which perhaps refers to the customary wooden anchor to which a
big rock has been tied.
fao, to pull out; always with belo, it means pulling out the stakes to which the proas are tied at
sea so they do not drift off.
faranggarang, simultaneous playing of drum and flute, as a sign that the Company is
summoned.
fardu, see ruru.
fargol: falah fargol (usually folah fargol, since those are most commonly found on Tidorese
territory), house with a double bamboo wall, filled with coralite and plastered inside and
outside with a thick layer of lime; such houses look like houses of brick and perhaps that is the
reason for the strange name. Campen, in Tiidschr. Kon. Inst., 4th series, Vol. VII, p. 164, says
that these houses are only proper to the districts of Maba, Weda and Patani, which is an error
since they are also found, among other places, in the capital Tidore and some places on
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