bulbulfi

Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Hot (of water, etc.).

Bupa

Word Class: 
placename

Burarr

Word Class: 
placename

burra

Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Pelican.
Kurungurr Example:
Yambiying nimbi gagu burra wandirrk ninggi darani titidi pagu tye yedi darrwa.
From Yambiying Ancestral Pelican came along this way, poling herself along on a raft.

burrburr

Word Class: 
coverb
disen
Word Class:

reflexive verb

Meaning:
Stretch your body, be active, move about.
Kurungurr Example:
Dengini wityi wirrsye burrburr, epe meringgi napa wannim wapup.
They should be more active, but they just sit around in the shade.

burrburrmuy

Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Pockmarked face, acne scarred skin.

butyeri

Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Blonde hair.

buy

Word Class: 
coverb
wirribem
Word Class:

verb intr

Meaning:
Pregnant, be pregnant.
Kurungurr Example:
Falmi ngayi wirribem buy kana.
My wife is pregnant now.
yenim
Word Class:

verb intr

Meaning:
Go along under water.
Kurungurr Example:
Atyalmerr yenim buy kurapukek.
The barramundi is underwater.

buy ... derri

Word Class: 
coverb + bodypart
mem
Word Class:

verb intr

Meaning:
Stand out visibly because the colouring of something is 'unnatural' against its background.
Kurungurr Example:
Tipperary wunu wembem, buy gumum derri girribem.
There's the Tipperary homestead, standing out visibly.

buy ... garri

Word Class: 
coverb + bodypart
mem
Word Class:

verb intr

Meaning:
Have 'standing out' legs. Have legs that are highly visible.

buy ... pi

Word Class: 
coverb + bodypart
yenim
Word Class:

verb intr

Meaning:
Grey haired, be grey haired, become grey haired.
Kurungurr Example:
Nem yenim buy pi.
He's greying.

buybuy ... tyerr

Word Class: 
coverb + bodypart
mem
Word Class:

verb tr

Meaning:
Blister, have one's skin blister (as in 'prickly heat').
Kurungurr Example:
Buybuy meny tyerr nginde.
I've got prickly heat blisters.
mem
Word Class:

verb intr

Meaning:
Grey, be grey haired, go grey.
Kurungurr Example:
Buybuy nginy tyerr kana.
I've gone grey haired.

da

Kurungurr Reduplication: 
dada
Word Class: 
coverb
dangim
Word Class:

verb tr

Meaning:
Make someone itchy.
Kurungurr Example:
Yewirr kinyi yemi du ngini, warinyi da ngini.
If you touch this tree, it'll make you itchy.
dangim
Word Class:

verb tr

Meaning:
Burst something.
Kurungurr Example:
Yangi dada!
Burst these blisters of mine!
dagan
Word Class:

verb intr

Meaning:
Sit with your bottom on the ground, ankles crossed, and knees up near your chest.
webem
Word Class:

verb tr

Meaning:
Hit, punch someone.
Kurungurr Example:
Ngebenda deme ninggi wawuni.
I hit that man with my fist.
dim
Word Class:

verb intr

Meaning:
Boring, be boring, be unexciting.
Kurungurr Example:
Dede kinyi diny da, engelin kidenawa ngambani!
This place is too boring, let's go fishing somewhere!
webem
Word Class:

verb tr

Meaning:
Shoot a gun.
Kurungurr Example:
Gagu wamanggal ngebi da ngini.
I'm off to shoot a wallaby.
dangim
Word Class:

verb tr

Meaning:
Call out about a death (kookaburras do this).
Kurungurr Example:
Afirirrpa ninggi dangimbirr da.
A kookaburra sung out to them about it.

da-

Word Class: 
noun suffix
Meaning:
Country. This suffix attaches to the interrogative tyen to form an interrogative that specifically refer to tracts of country. Eg. tyende 'which country'.
Kurungurr Example:
Tyende kinyi?
What country is this?

daba

Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Arm.
Kurungurr Example:
Daba musyari yimi bawa, getyimi bapal.
Lift her up gentle, you don't want to break her arm!
Kurungurr Example:
Daba musyari yumu bawa genytyi mi bapal.

dabapurrpurrk

Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Little creeks.

dabatyatma

Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Right handed.

dada

Word Class: 
coverb
dim
Word Class:

verb intr

Meaning:
Sing.
Kurungurr Example:
Wirrike palamurri werri wirringgi dada.
The two of them are singing with clapsticks.
yenim
Word Class:

verb intr

Meaning:
Sing, be able to sing.
Kurungurr Example:
Minde nana ngaganim dada.
I can't sing.
dangim
Word Class:

verb tr

Meaning:
Crack nits, break nit eggs in someone's hair with a 'nit stick'.
Kurungurr Example:
Ngayi ngarin pidada aminbi manak.
I cracked his nit eggs.
daram
Word Class:

reflexive verb

Meaning:
Busy, be busy at doing something on your own.
Kurungurr Example:
Wunde yirre karan dada.
She's back there busy with herself.
webem
Word Class:

verb tr

Meaning:
Tap, chip away at something.
Kurungurr Example:
Ngeben dada ngirim, ngebi derri bang ngini.
I'm chipping away at it, to make a hole.

dadat

Word Class: 
coverb
dem
Word Class:

verb tr

Meaning:
Make a scritchy noise (like a beetle in a tin cup, or a dog at the door).

dadatyerr

Wumirri Headword: 
dafi
Word Class: 
adjectival noun
Meaning:
'Cheeky', spicy/hot (of food), itchy (of grubs).

dadirri

Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Still, without moving, housebound, prefering the one place.
Kurungurr Example:
Dadirri ngirim, tal ngim muy, ngirim werrtyeri.
I sat still, concentrating, and listening.

dadirrimade

Wumirri Headword: 
dadirrityerr
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Hard, tough, brittle.

dadirrime

Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Faint, collapse.
Kurungurr Example:
Dadirrime yenim.
He's fainted.

dadirrityerr

Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Tough-worded, make a point strongly.
Kurungurr Example:
Dadirrityerr pagu!
I'm being tough, that's it!

dagabagen'ge

Word Class: 
adjectival noun
Meaning:
'Stickybeak'. Someone who's always poking their nose into other people's business.

dagarri

Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Leg, esp. lower leg.
Kurungurr Example:
Dagarri weti kirri ngani elele!
He's got skinny little legs, like a curlew!
Kurungurr Example:
Dagarri wedi mirri ngini elele.

dagum

Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Season name: that time in the mid dry season characterised by cold nights and early morning fog.

dakarrany

Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Man with more than one wife.

damada

Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Clear, clean sky (as in just after a storm).

damadi

Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Chest.
Kurungurr Example:
Ma, yebi da damadi napa!
Go on, shoot it right in the chest!

dambal dambal

Wumirri Headword: 
tyambal tyambal
Word Class: 
sound noun
Meaning:
Sound of waves breaking.

damunerr

Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Tree species (no common name known).

damurri

Wumirri Headword: 
damurru
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Balls, testicles, scrotum.

damuy

Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Eye.
Kurungurr Example:
Yinyirri damuy kerre kirri.
Look at those big eyes!
Kurungurr Example:
Yinyirri damuy wawarrfirr mirri.

damuy ... baty

Word Class: 
noun + coverb
dem
Word Class:

verb tr

Meaning:
Keep a person in your thoughts. Still think about someone after they're gone. Have an image of a person fresh in your mind.
Kurungurr Example:
Damuy ngeringnge baty.
I still think about her.

damuy dityunggurr

Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
'Short eye'.

damuy dudumempi

Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Asian eyes, eyes with 'swollen' lids.

damuy wamanggal

Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
'Wallaby eyes'.

damuy werri

Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Have eyes for someone, be 'going out' with someone, be boyfriend/girlfriend.
Kurungurr Example:
Wa wuni ka, damuy werri nganninggu.
See that bloke over there, me and him are going out.

dangim

Word Class: 
simple verb tr
Meaning:
Write, incise, make meaningful marks on something.
Kurungurr Example:
Peyipa nyinyi yani tye yini.
You were writing your papers.

danguri

Wumirri Headword: 
danguru
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Cock, penis.

danybarraga

Wumirri Headword: 
dany
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Turtle, small shortnecked freshwater.

dapala

Word Class: 
adjectival noun
Meaning:
Deaf person.

dapanmi

Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Crotch, fork of legs.
Kurungurr Example:
Nganam baty dapanmi napa!
I kicked it right up its 'fork'!

dapurr

Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Mouth of a small creek.
Kurungurr Example:
Engelin ngini kinyi ka dapurr nide ngaganim.
I'm going fishing here at the mouth of the creek.
Kurungurr Example:
Agarrtyinytyi ne kinyi ka dapurr nide ngani pe.

darrgariny

Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Tear (in clothing), a leaking tap, a hole.

darrgarinypurr

Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
'Leaky-arsed'.

darrwa

Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Platform built up in a tree for hunting, or used to escape from risng floodwaters.

data

Wumirri Headword: 
dada
Word Class: 
noun
Meaning:
Shoulder.

datakinninggi

Word Class: 
demonstrative
Meaning:
This side X, the X on this side (where X is an upright, 'standing' object, like a fence, or a person).
Kurungurr Example:
Datakinninggi nginyinggin yilil, nem were nyinyi girribem. Datawunninggi nem ngatya ngayi. Epe ngarrnguweri kene girribem?
The one on the near side, that's your brother. And the one on the far side, that's my daddy. So who's that in between them?

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