ain

English: ‘iron’.

See original Mihalic entry.

Noun/Modifier forms

  1. iron, made of iron, metallic
    yu laikim ain bia o botol bia? do you want canned beer or bottled beer?
    ain mani coins

  1. Mining/geology: mineral prospecting: any metallic mineral; more specifically: magnetite ® kapa, manganis
    planti ain i stap ‘Mangu … laconically reported ‘planti ain i stap’. The following day Fishburn went to check, and there was indeed plenty of metal. The heli-pad Mangu had cut was close to both Magnetite and Sulphide Creeks, in whose streambeds outcropped solid masses of copper sulphides, and copper bearing magnetite iron ores …’ (R. Jackson, Ok Tedi: the pot of gold, Waigani, UPNG Press, 1982, p. 45).

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