Tongan → English: P

shield

bar (of iron, of soap, of music; where alcholic beverages are served)

to burst, explode, blow up; (of plants) to burst or break through the soil; (of story, news) to be reported, to become known

to touch; to hit, knock against, collide with

printing; version

to slap; to print

printing press, printer

palm (tree)

to pass (an examination or estimates)

to slap

to be utterly sick and tired of or fed up with, to be exasperated

pie

pilot

pine

pint

pipe; tube; tap

crab

(adj/v) thin, lean, slender, having comparatively little flesh

to break or break off with the hand; to pick or pluck

to click, or to make a crackling, braking or snapping noise, or a noise like two pieces of wood hitting together; (of the voice) to be sharp, metallic or falsetto

crust (bread, pie, etc.); crackling

(adj/v) quite dry, dry right through, or dry and hard

to rot, decay, be rotten or rotting; to be mattery, to ulcerate or fester; to be sore, to have one or more open sores; (of the tongue) to be coated, furry; (of water) stagnant, unfit for drinking

pliers

paragraph

blackboard

(adj/v) disgusting (in appearance), repulsive-looking; repulsively dirty or ugly or immoral

parallel

parallel bars (for exercising)

plan

balance (esp. in book-keeping)

planet

palace

plaster (for a wall); sticking-plaster

to plaster; to apply sticking plaster to

Paradise

plough; grader

to plough; to grade (a road)

prize or reward; wreath

premier

president

professor

to prophesy

prophet

promise

to promise

barometer

problem

ballot, vote

to ballot, vote by ballot

(adj/v) plural

wall of stone or rock, rock resembling a wall

pump; enema (the apparatus)

to pump; to administer an enema to

(adj/v) greyish brown

panel; shutter (that pushes out)

bun

to smear, besmear, daub, or stain; to rub the head with oil

bank

sawn timber, plank(s), board(s)

mat (woven) with plain edges

(of wood) cracked along the grain

(adj/n) European, (person) belonging to any white-skinned race

to besmear roughly or here and there

(adj/v) definite, final, quite decided, no longer in doubt or uncertainty

baptism

to baptize

bazaar, fair for sale of goods (often by schools or churches)

passenger; passage (on a ship)

to clap, to applaud by clapping

Pacific

bicycle

(n/v) basket-ball

passport

plantain with soft mealy sub-acid flesh

butter

Catholic priest

scar

potato

duck

(adj/v) without doubt or uncertainty; certain, definite; settled, determined, decided; (of the mind) made up; necessary, inevitable

pound (weight)

face powder, or baking powder

(adj/v) ill-mannered, naughty, mischievous; to do mischievous or naughty things

park

coin, money; fund

paper money

or, whether, or merely introducing an indirect question

and, and then, and next, and after that

bear (animal); pear (fruit)

and, and also

and I (with verb following)

wave, billow

page (of a book)

(adj/adv) like this, like that, such, thus

to say; to think; to give or hold as one's opinion or conviction; to regard; to decide; to wonder

kitchen

bat, flying fox

bacon

to soak or sop up (gravy, oil, etc.) with bread or yam

pistol

swallow (bird)

death, decease; fatality

to die

(adj/v) blunt

(adj/v) specially beloved or favoured; petted, made a pet of; favourite

favourite or specially beloved child; pet

to play cards

(adj/v)muddy, miry

mud, mire, or muddy pool

plate; plaque, momorial tablet

fold, crease or hem

to fold, bend or flex; to reef (a sail); to hem

penny (coin); pen, pencil (writing instrument)

benzine, petrol, gasolene, or naphtha

banjo

Pentecost

pepper

paper; book of writing or blank paper

school paper, exercise book

writing pad

toilet paper

cardboard

wrapping paper

cigarette paper

drawing paper

typing paper

decorating paper

wall-paper

butterfly

baby

per cent

claws

basin, enamel basin

(adj/v) rough (to the touch)

all right then, very well then

pea; bee, wasp or hornet

to throw, dash or splash water

beer

to splash up, fly up, as spray does; to squirt

bean(s)

peach

to take hold of; to hold on, cling, stick, or adhere

(adj/v) sticky; grimy; gathered up, puckered

(adj/v) bent, crooked (of one bend only)

(adj/v) crooked

to bend, make crooked; to pervert or to falsify

brick

princess

prince

period, full stop

prison, jail

Britain

blue (for blueing clothes)

pillow, or cushion

peanut

pin

(adj/v) pink

turkey

B.P. (Burns Philp Co., Ltd.)

(adj/v) infectious

to hold on or adhere, etc.; to remain clinging or adhering; or to be stuck fast

to be disinclined, reluctant, unwilling, or bored

(adj/v) wet through, saturated

biscuit

business

bishop

bit (for horse's mouth), bridle, reins

navel

stuffing

to stuff (a pig) preparatory to cooking

yellow bamboo

skirt

night

to catch (insect, bird or small animal)

to apologize for one's absence, to ask to have one's absence excused; to ask for leave or permission

point; or decimal point

plaited coconut-leaves used for making walls or roof, or as a food- tray; large tray of food or pre-set table prepared for feasts

trunk or main stem of plantain or banana plant

police; policeman

ball-pen, ball-point pen

brush

bolt

to faint, collapse, swoon, lose consciousness

morning

canoe

poplin

(adj/v) (of wood) rotten, decaying; (of palm of hand or sole of foot) to be affected with a disease which makes it dry and cracked; (of clothes) old and worn out

message

to send a message

to be dazzled, to be hurt by the light

(adj/v) overcast, somewhat dark

captive, prisoner, or slave

to be in captivity, to be a prisoner or a slave

post office

(adj/v) to be clever, skilful; to understand what to do and be able to do it

frog

place, locality; side, end

text or verse of scripture

department, bureau, sphere of work; circuit; parish, charge

place in a book or letter

end of, piece of

post, pillar, pile

to prop up, to support; to second; to emphasize, lay stress on; to urge, exhort

night, darkness

pig

box, case; barrel

ice-chest, refrigerator

storage battery, car battery ("electric box")

to blow energetically (with the mouth); (of a whale) to spout; to puff, puff at; to issue forcibly through a mouth or opening

to blow, blow away, or blow out (with the mouth)

to blaze up, flare up

curtain; blind

mound of earth over a yam or a taro or other root vegetable

to take hold of, to seize, to hold; to arrest; to maintain

(of a person or animal) to be sick, ill, unwell, ailing

to hold on to or keep hold of, to retain or maintain; to hold back, restrain

(adj/v) short (in height)

(adj/v) to be marked with spots or coloured patterns

controlling, governing, superintending, in control

control; authority, government, superintendence

to rule, to be in a position of authority or control

Wednesday

foreman

kingdom, government, state, nation

to be out of sight, to disappear or vanish; to be lost, gone, or missing

to disappear, to become lost or mislaid; to be completely hidden or concealed

seed-yams, piece(s) of yam for planting

cloth (of any kind) used as a covering for the head or the face; hood

coconut husk

bull; beef

ball

(adj/v) blue

chewing gum

broom

to print, to print and publish

coconut-husk used for squeezing or wringing cream from grated coconut

to fly; to leap, jump, spring, or bounce; (of liquids) to squirt, to issue forth

poem; poet

to jump along or to proceed by jumps or short flights

to be stooping, or to stoop all the time

nest

to be close together, crowded together; (of events) to occur at frequent intervals, to be frequent

mouth-wash, gargle

to rinse the mouth out, or to rinse the mouth and gargle the throat

perspiration; heat (of the day)

to be so warm as to perspire; (of weather) to be so warm as to cause perspiration

(adj/v) (of persons) hot and perspiring, oppressively hot

to swell, be or become swollen; to expand; to bulge

clump, group, cluster, number of things close together

to be confused, perplexed, bewildered, mystified, baffled

hollow in the reef through which the water rushes with great force; blowhole

pudding

funeral, funeral rites

to utter aloud, pronounce, or declare; to eject (from the mouth)

order, command, errand

to give orders, to tell someone to do something