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baby pikinini
baby not yet weaned pikinini i dring susu yet
bachelor house (Trobriand Islands) bukumatula
back baksait; bek
back (again) bek
back (rear) baksait
backbone bekbun
backwards long bek
bad nogut
bad place ples nogut
bag (n) bek
baggage kago
bail up, hold up hansapim
bake kukim
bake bread kukim bret
ballpoint pen bolpoin or biro
bamboo mambu
bamboo pipe mambu
bamboo shoots ol pikinini mambu
banana banana
band paspas
bandage a wound pasim sua
bandicoot mumut
bank beng
bank (n) haus mani
baptize wasim, baptaisim
bar ba
barbecue kukim long paia
barbecue sauce blakpela sos
bark skin
barman, bartender baman
base, basis as
basket basket
bathe waswas
bathroom ples waswas, rum bilong waswas
battery bateri
be better than winim
be in a place stap
beach nambis
beads bis
beans bin, ol bin
beard gras usket, mausgras
beat, beat up paitim
beaten dark cloth tapa
beautiful nais
because bilong wanem, long wanem, bikos
because of long
become kamap
bed bet
bedroom rum slip
beef bulmakau, kau, abus bulmakau
beer bia
before bipo
before (time) bipo long taim
begin kirapim
behave oneself stap isi , stap gut
behaviour, manner pasin
behind bihain long
believe bilip, bilipim
bell belo
belly bel
belt let, paspas bilong bel
bend (something) krungutim
beside arere long
best nambawan
betel pepper daka
betelnut buai , bilinat, bitolnat
better mobeta
bible buk tambu
Bible Baibel
bicycle wilwil
big bikpela
bill bil
binoculars glas bilong kapten
bird pisin
Bird of Paradise kumul
biscuit bisket
bite kaikaim
bite off brukim/katim lo
bitter, strong em i pait
black blakpela
black palm wailimbung,wailimbum
blanket blanket
bleed blut i kamap
blind aipas
blind in one eye matakiau
blood blut
blood relative wanblut
blow winim
blow bugle winim bugol
blow out a match mekim i masis
bludger pasindia
blue blu
board (a vehicle) kalap
board a PMV kalap long PM
boastful, proud litimapim em yet
boat bot
boat's crew boskru
body bodi, skin
boil (something) boilim
boil, swelling, lump buk
boiled i bin boilim
boiling, be boil
bone bun
book buk
bookshop buksop
boot (n) bikpela su
border arere
born mama i karim
borrow dinau
boss masta, bos
both tupela
both shoes tupela su
bottle botol
bottle opener op tin
bottom ananit
bow banara
bows and arrows banaras
bowstring rop bilong banara
box (n) bokis
boy boi; manki, pikinini man
boyfriend boipren
brain kru bilong het
brake(s) brek
branch of tree han bilong diwai
brassiere, bra banis bilong susu
brave i no save pret
bread bret
breadfruit kapiak
break brukim
break word brukim promis/tok
break down bagarap
break in halves, divide in two brukim namel
break the law brukim lo
breakfast kaikai long moning
breast susu
breath win
breathe pulim win
bridge bris
bright lait
bring bringim, kisim . . . i kam
broken bruk
brooch bros
brothel haus pamuk
brother brada
brother brata
brothers and sisters bratasusa
brown braun, braunpela
brush bras, brus
bubble gum abababa
build (something) wokim
building haus
bulb, light globe kiau
bullybeef skweamit, pokona
bump bamim
bunch of tanket leaves stuck into a belt to cover a man's backside arse tanket
bunch of tanket leaves stuck into a belt to cover a man's backside (Highlands) arse gras
bundle karamap
burn kukim, paia
Burns Philp Bipi
bury planim
bus bas, PMV
bush bus
bush knife busnaip
bush Pig, wild pig welpig
bush villager buskanaka
businessman man bisnis
busy i gat wok
busy (doing something) wok long
but tasol
butter bata
buttock as
button baten
buttress root kil bilong diwai
buy baim
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