Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Fish, generic term for any kind of fish.
Word Class: 
coverb
wupun
Word Class:

verb tr

Meaning:
Cover something over, spread a layer or film over something.
Kurungurr Example:
Murriga kinyi wupun pit bafun.
This car is covered with a film of ash.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Movies, photos, pictures.
Kurungurr Example:
Pitya kinyi yerr minde dengini wurru!
This movie is boring!
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Menses onset, and ceremony associated with a woman's first period.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Name, a person's name.
Kurungurr Example:
Piwari nem wuni kene?
What's the name of that guy?
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Use up too much stuff, waste things, gobble up (food).
Kurungurr Example:
Minde piwasiwasi yani!
Don't just gobble it up!
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Show-off, someone who likes to perform, someone who likes to be stylish.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Blanket.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Tracker, a police aide.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Police car, paddywagon.
Kurungurr Example:
Were ngayi wamumu ninggi dentip, i pilityka nide dagam madi kuli.
The police man came and caught my brother and put him in the police car.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Policeman.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Fryingpan.
Wumirri Headword: 
pudup
Word Class: 
coverb
wayim
Word Class:

impersonal verb

Meaning:
Melt, be melted by the heat of a fire.
Kurungurr Example:
Fwa wayim pudip kana.
The wax is melted now.
dinem
Word Class:

verb tr

Meaning:
Melt something, cause something to melt.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Coccyx, tailbone.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Water-carrier, container made of paperbark.
Word Class: 
interjection
Meaning:
Go away!, Piss off!
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Cross cousins. People in the same relationship to you as your mother's brother's kids, and your father's sister's kids.
Kurungurr Example:
Kala ngayi, were ngayim, membir nem, 'pugali' ngimbirr.
My mum's brother, his kids I call 'pugali'.
Word Class: 
coverb
dem
Word Class:

verb tr

Meaning:
Wash something.
Kurungurr Example:
Ngayi pulit ngerim pul.
I wash the plates.
demen
Word Class:

reflexive verb

Meaning:
Wash yourself.
webem
Word Class:

verb tr

Meaning:
Clear away clutter, clear scrub for a living space, make an open area.
Kurungurr Example:
Bengim pul yenim bulldozer ninggi.
He's clearing (the trees) away with a bulldozer.
wayim
Word Class:

verb tr

Meaning:
Burn, clean up country by burning, open up space (of fire).
Kurungurr Example:
Yenggi wayim pul pagu tye yedi drum bengingket dede kinyi.
The fire burned back here through the (petrol) drums.
Word Class: 
placename
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Cattle, cow, bullock.
Kurungurr Example:
Murriga yerrkerre nyinde gaganim puliki werri.
There's a huge truck coming up, loaded with cattle.
Kurungurr Example:
Murriga yerrminbadi nyine gerrimbin puliki werre.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Underpants.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Plate, food plate.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Bottle.
Word Class: 
coverb
wirribem
Word Class:

verb intr

Meaning:
Tracks, for there to be tracks around a burrow showing that it is in use.
Kurungurr Example:
Wirrbem pulpul, ep dingem madi merriny.
There's tracks going in and out, it must be inside.
Word Class: 
coverb + bodypart
dim
Word Class:

phrasal verb intr

Meaning:
Nuisance, be a nuisance, humbug, mess about.
Kurungurr Example:
Minde pulpulmuy yiwi yerrngayi!
Don't mess around with my things!
yenim
Word Class:

phrasal verb intr

Meaning:
Nuisance, be a nuisance, habitually annoy people.
Kurungurr Example:
Wapulpulmuy yedi tye.
He was always a pest.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Doesn't. CHECK
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Wedgetailed eagle.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Shield.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Spoon.
Kurungurr Example:
Pun yerrngayi kide.
Where's my spoon.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Grandmother's country. The country that your maternal grandmother inherited from her father.
Kurungurr Example:
Rak Malfiyin punderri ngayi napa.
That Malfiyin's my grandmother's country.
Kurungurr Reduplication: 
puppup
Word Class: 
coverb
wudupun
Word Class:

verb tr

Meaning:
Light a fire, build up a fire.
Kurungurr Example:
Yenggi wudupun pup.
She's lighting a fire.
dim
Word Class:

verb tr

Meaning:
Rub firesticks together.
Kurungurr Example:
Palayin ngirim puppup ngirim yenggi ngini.
I'm rubbing up firesticks for a fire.
dangim
Word Class:

verb tr

Meaning:
Rub firesticks together.
Kurungurr Example:
Lurity ngarimpup yenggi tawan wanityerr ngini.
Rub hard to make it smoke.
diwem
Word Class:

verb tr

Meaning:
Carry someone/something on your shoulder.
Kurungurr Example:
Ngiwe tapup ngini data ngayi nide.
(I picked it up) and put it on my shoulders.
dingim
Word Class:

verb tr

Meaning:
Put something down, lay something on the ground.
Kurungurr Example:
Merrepen ngerim way nimbi, fiti nide ngem pup.
When I've twisted the sand palm fibre, I lay it down in the sun to dry.
diwen
Word Class:

verb intr

Meaning:
Stop an action, solve an issue.
Kurungurr Example:
Yiwe puy tyamen napa.
Stop right there!
dingim
Word Class:

verb tr

Meaning:
Plant things, place plants in the ground.
Kurungurr Example:
Yerrdamuy ngem pup, meringgi ngini.
I planted some seedlings, for shade.
yenim
Word Class:

verb tr

Meaning:
Burn country, move around country firing it.
Kurungurr Example:
Dede kinyi minde tye kene wani puppup.
No-one's been burning this country properly.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Flat topped hill. Mesa formation.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Taste funny, the taste of something that is not quite right (fruit overripe, tobacco a bit stale, meat a bit off, etc.).
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Slippery (of a log, pole, etc).
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Vain, thinking yourself to be beautiful.
Kurungurr Example:
Wurpupuritymuy wurru!
She loves herself!
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
'Four of a kind', as a call in card games.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
'Price up' as a call in card games, indicating that the money required to meet a previous bid goes up with every round.
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Bread.
Kurungurr Example:
Purirri wityi yungindi.
Butter this bread for me.
Kurungurr Reduplication: 
pupurity
Word Class: 
coverb
yenim
Word Class:

verb intr

Meaning:
Hide, be in hiding.
Kurungurr Example:
Dede kinyi ngaganim lali yenim pupurity napandi.
Whenever I come round he's always hiding.
wudupun
Word Class:

verb tr

Meaning:
Put something away, place something out of sight.
Kurungurr Example:
Yudi pupurity ngini.
You're going to put it away.
wudupun
Word Class:

verb tr

Meaning:
Hide something.
Kurungurr Example:
Membirr watypela nimbi beyi baty, kala ninggi wudiniwirr pupurity, wamumu ngini wanniyirri yety.
When kids were born to white fathers, the mothers used to hide them because they were scared of the police.
dem
Word Class:

verb tr

Meaning:
Slip, lose your grip with your fingers.
Kurungurr Example:
Ngerim purity yewirr nimbi.
I slipped out of the tree.
yenim
Word Class:

verb intr

Meaning:
Play around, have 'a fling', have a lover on the side.
yenim
Word Class:

verb intr

Meaning:
Slip, slide, loose your footing.
Word Class: 
adverb
Meaning:
Give up, quit doing something.
Kurungurr Example:
Ngaty nguninge fifili tye purityge.
After a long time, I just gave up looking for her.
Word Class: 
bodypart as coverb
dingim
Word Class:

impersonal verb

Meaning:
Feel the urge to poo.
Kurungurr Example:
Dingingngi purr.
I need to do a poo.
dem
Word Class:

verb tr

Meaning:
Own a pet, keep an animal.
Kurungurr Example:
Wumibe getyerim purr kana, yinyirri kerrety kana!
Now that you've got a puppy, you've got to look after it!
Word Class: 
bodypart + coverb
daram
Word Class:

reflexive verb

Meaning:
Sit 'cowboy style', squatting on one heel with the other foot extended.
Kurungurr Reduplication: 
purr fuyfuy
Word Class: 
bodypart + coverb
dingim
Word Class:

verb tr

Meaning:
Make mouthwatering smells, cook up things that smell good.
Kurungurr Example:
Ya kene dingem purrfuy wirribem tyuptyup ayubu.
Hey, who's making that delicious soup smell.
dangim
Word Class:

verb tr

Meaning:
Wipe a child's bum.
Kurungurr Example:
Bingini wurru nga purrfuyfuy ngini.
His bum's all dirty, I'll have to wipe him up.
wudupun
Word Class:

verb tr

Meaning:
Smell good, give off a nice odour.
Kurungurr Example:
Kene gudupun purrfuy gaganim, yerrfiny yubu.
Who's that smelling good, it's nice perfume.
Word Class: 
bodypart + coverb
dangim
Word Class:

verb tr

Meaning:
Curse someone, put a curse on a person.
Kurungurr Example:
Nganyi purrkek ngini!
I'm going to curse you!
Word Class: 
bodypart + coverb
dem
Word Class:

verb tr

Meaning:
Finish something off, bring something to completion.
Kurungurr Example:
Yemi purrket.
Finish it off !
dem
Word Class:

verb tr

Meaning:
Stop doing something, quit work for the day.
Kurungurr Example:
Wurrkama ngerim purrket.
We stopped work.
Word Class: 
bodypart + coverb
dingim
Word Class:

verb tr

Meaning:
Praise someone.
Kurungurr Example:
Wurrkama yubu napa yenim ngem purrpal.
I praised him and told him he was working well.
Word Class: 
bodypart + coverb
wupun
Word Class:

verb tr

Meaning:
Dry out skin (of wind).
Kurungurr Example:
Marrawuk ninggi wupun purrsusul agarrfuri.
The wind has dried out my skin.
Word Class: 
bodypart + coverb
win
Word Class:

verb intr

Meaning:
Brush dust off your bottom after sitting on the ground.
Kurungurr Example:

W 3 Girribem tittit purr.

Word Class: 
bodypart + coverb
menggin
Word Class:

verb tr

Meaning:
Have something stuck in your bum.
Kurungurr Example:
Aya turety nyinyi mengginnyi purrtyap!
Hey, your dress is caught up your crack!
Word Class: 
bodypart + coverb
dem
Word Class:

verb tr

Meaning:
Change a baby's nappy.

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