glas

English: ‘glass’.

See first Mihalic entry. See second Mihalic entry.

Modifier forms

  1. Everyday item: made of glass or hard ceramics
    glas plet a china plate
    glas kap china mug
    glas ai glass eye
    i no ain, em i glas it isn’t made of tin, it’s made of china

Noun forms

  1. Everyday item: a glass, window pane, mirror, windscreen, any glass object ® aiglas
    lam glas the glass ‘chimney’ of a kerosene lamp
    windo glas window pane, louvre blade
    glas bilong lukluk a mirror, a looking-glass
    waindim (apim/daunim) glas wind (wind up/wind down) a car window

  1. Everyday item: goggles
    glas bilong swim diving goggles
    daiv long glas to skin dive; to ‘swim dive’ for trochus etc

  1. Medicine: thermometer
    givim glas to take a temperature with a thermometer

Intransitive verb forms

  1. to free dive, using goggles
    go glas long gam to go free diving for baler shells

  1. to signal with a mirror, to observe with field glasses
    mipela i glas long ol we signaled them with a mirror; we flashed signals to them; we watched them through field glasses

Transitive verb forms

  1. to look at through any kind of optical aid ® kompas
    kiap i glasim ol wel kanaka long kompas the patrol officer observed the fierce tribesmen through binoculars

  1. to inspect carefully, to examine medically, to spot ® sekim
    glasim gut! inspect it thoroughly!
    dokta i glasim mi the doctor examined me
    wanpela birua hait i kam, tasol mipela glasim em longwe hap one of the enemies crept up secretly, but we spotted him a long way off

  1. to take the temperature with a thermometer
    nes i glasim sikman the nurse took the patient’s temperature

  1. to do the work of a shaman or seer ® glasman
    poisenman i glasim bodi bilong em the shaman used his special powers to inspect the patient’s body

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