marasin

English: ‘medicine’.

See original Mihalic entry.

Sediment damaged banana garden, Bige village, Awin people, Lower Ok Tedi, 10 Sepember 1991 - felt to harbour kapa marasin.

Noun forms

  1. medicine
    haus marasin a dispensary, a chemist’s shop
    kus marasin cough mixture, cough syrup, cough medicine
    marasin bilong pasim gumi rubber cement
    solmarasin epsom salts

  1. any chemical
    kapa marasin ‘toxic mine wastes’ - term used in connection with pollution downstream of the Ok Tedi mine
    didiman i wok long pamim marasin long kopi the extension officer is spraying the coffee with a chemical

  1. alcoholic drink

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