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TERNATE THE TERNATESE LANGUAGE
Also used as a possesive pronoun, e.g. ngafalah, their houses; ngapuji, their prayers; ana ifiri
taka ngakie si ngakolano, they fled and left their mountain and their ruler behind.
ngaai, a beach-bird, Sterna species.
ngaai ma-dodera, a floating piece of wood or some other thing on which these birds sit.
ngade: 1. mangade, to change, change one’s clothes. 2. lake. In the Malay of Ternate a lake
is usually indicated with the word laguna, derived from Spanish.
ngaje-ngaje, or usually ngongaje, story, to tell; isingongaje, being narrated.
ngali, case, event, circumstances; haka waro ma-ngali sudidi, to report what happened during
the earthquake.
ngamodi, two, of people; see also romdidi.
ngamotoha, five, of people; see also romotoha; sudo ana ngamotoha tagi jairat, ordered the five
of them to go and make a sacrifice.
ngana, you, masculine and feminine; also possessive pronoun, but then with an added ni, e.g.
ngana ni kabi, your goat. Before verbs it is used either alone or with an added no, e.g. ngana no
oho huda, you eat sago.
nganyagimoi, ten, of people; see also nyagimoi.
nganyagiraange, thirty, of people; see also nyagiraange.
nganyagirara, sixty, of people; see also nyagirara.
nganyagiromdidi, twenty, of people; see also nyagiromdidi.
ngarah, door, gate, entrance, doorway.
ngarah lamo, the big gate (also guard-room, prison and council-chamber) at the end of the
main road leading to the palace.
ngarah ici, the small gate at the side of the palace which leads to the outbuildings.
ngarah upas, the guards’ gate, near the entance to the fenced-in compound of the Sultan.
kota ma-ngarah, the gate of the fort.
ngarah ma-beno, door-post, and therefore the name of a passage between two rocks near
Lolodah on Halmahera, in Valentijn mentioned as Gate of the Moluccas; the latter description
is not known on Ternate.
ngaratumoi, hundred, of people; see also ratumoi.
ngaro, a tree, Kleinhovia hospita L.; the bark is a remedy against diarrhea.
ngaruha, four, of people; see also raha.
ngarukange, three, of people; see also raange.
ngaruo, how many, of people; e.g. lomu ngaruo kage, how many people are together?; see also
rau.
ngarura, six, of people; see also raha.
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