okoro aplaka metal knife, esp. used for cooking, peeling, etc.

Part of Speech noun
Tanema Equivalent toki
Lovono Equivalent toki
    • metal knife, esp. used for cooking, peeling, etc.
    • Literally small knife
      • Example 1986:
        I-ta balawe ñe okoro aplaka.
        He's peeling a pineapple with a small knife.

Related entries

  • Contains:
    • okoro bamboo / name of certain artefacts made of bamboo / a heavy bamboo, used as a stamping tube. Singers of buro bula okoro ‘bamboo songs’ stamp (~woi) the bamboo on the ground, thereby producing a deep sound as they sing along / a traditional knife made of bamboo; hence (modern) knife; bushknife, machete