haus

English: ‘house’.

See original Mihalic entry.

Village house, Rai Coast, Madang Province, 1998.

Noun forms

  1. Buildings and structures: home, house, nest ® plua
    stap long haus to be at home
    haus bilong pisin a bird’s nest, a nest
    haus bilong spaida a spider web

  1. Buildings and structures: village house types
    haus blain a house with walls of woven pitpit blinds
    haus blut menstrual seclusion hut - formerly known from many areas but rare today, with the possible exception of societies where the first menses is still marked
    haus boi (i) New Guinea islands and some mainland places: men’s clan or lineage house (see the similar haus man of the highlands), also euphemism for the spirit house (ii) domestic servants’ house at the back of a town property
    haus drai a copra drying house - see also paiaman
    haus kapa (i) a house roofed with iron sheeting (ii) any Western-style house, for example in Australia
    haus karim a small house build by a husband for his wife to give birth in; also a maternity ward
    haus kiap a guest house in a village set aside for travellers to overnight in, originally specifically for government patrol officers, but still found in some remote areas
    haus kona a Western-style house, used in the Gimi area of Eastern Highlands Province (Gillison 2002: 22)
    haus kuk a kitchen house: (i) in areas where houses for sleeping in are on posts and suspended hearths are not built, and (ii) where people build permanent materials houses but still prefer to cook over an open fire, a family may build a separate haus kuk for preparing meals in.
    haus kunai a house roofed with Imperata thatch - as opposed to a haus kapa
    haus lotu a church - see sios
    haus marit (i) modern style house where a married couple lives together, as opposed to traditionally separated living arrangements, (ii) married accommodation provided by an employer
    haus meri a house-type only used by women - as opposed to the communal men’s house in some parts of the highlands and, for example, West New Britain
    haus paul, haus kakaruk chicken coop, hen house
    haus pekpek pit toilet
    haus pik in the highlands, a traditional form of woman’s long house where a wife and her children sleep at one end and, separated by a partition and entering by their own door, the pigs she cares for at the other
    haus plang a house made of sawn timber
    haus sel a tent, a tarpaulin slung over poles to form a shelter
    haus slip a house for sleeping in - as opposed to haus kuk etc
    haus tambaran spirit house, cult house, ceremonial house: specifically refers to the Sepik style of cult house
    haus man traditional house in which men and boys usually of the same subclan (thought this is not true of Simbu men’s houses) sleep, particularly in the highlands - see the similar haus boi of the New Guinea Islands region
    haus win a light shelter without walls
    liklik haus (i) euphemism for the pit toilet, (ii) can also be a euphemism for menstrual hut where found

  1. Buildings and structures: town and station building types
    haus ais a freezer
    haus balus a hangar
    haus bot a boathouse
    haus bulmakau a cow stable, a barn
    haus guria the tumbler mill formerly at New Guinea Goldfields Namie mine, Wau
    haus holi a temple
    haus kaikai kitchen, pantry, food storehouse
    haus kamda carpenter’s shop, joinery
    haus kat the surgery theatre at a hospital
    haus kot courthouse
    haus lait a powerhouse
    haus marasin dispensary
    haus misin a house where missionaries stay
    haus mani a bank
    haus pamuk (i) a brothel (ii) any house where promiscuous sexual activity is believed to be taking place
    haus pasindia formerly a hotel or guest house, this term now has essentially the same meaning as haus pamuk
    haus Pater the Father’s house, the presbytery
    haus sik (i) a hospital (ii) any medical establishment bigger than an Aid Post
    haus sista (i) a convent (ii) nurses’ quarters
    haus skul a schoolhouse

  1. Buildings and structures: cabin, truck cover, tarp
    PMV i no gat haus bilong en, na ren wasim ol pasindia the PMV had an open back and the passengers got wet
    haus bilong sip a cabin

Noun combination forms

  1. Hunting: haus kapul hunting lodge in the mountains maintained to look after tacts of bush owned by a particular group (Biangai people, Wau Valley)

  1. Agriculture: haus paiaman a copra smoking house (originally from the man or boy who tended the fire under it) ® paiaman

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