Contionary:Toki Pona/kule

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Toki Pona

tok:

Glyph origin

Template:Tok-sitelen The sitelen pona glyph is formed with the color radical (a triangle), which itself may be representing a prism, and a straight line through the middle. Compare tok ("jelo") → [[Contionary:{{{3}}}|{{{3}}}]] ("{{{4}}}"), tok ("laso") → [[Contionary:{{{3}}}|{{{3}}}]] ("{{{4}}}"), tok ("loje") → [[Contionary:{{{3}}}|{{{3}}}]] ("{{{4}}}"), tok ("pimeja") → [[Contionary:{{{3}}}|{{{3}}}]] ("{{{4}}}"), tok ("walo") → [[Contionary:{{{3}}}|{{{3}}}]] ("{{{4}}}").

Etymology

Template:Etymon From Acadian French couleur (color).

Pronunciation

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Noun

Toki Pona/kule

  1. color, hue, paint
    • 2021 July 18, jan Kapilu, “lon ma tomo pi tenpo pini suli”, in Sonja Lang, compiler, Toki Pona Dictionary, page 401:
      insa pi ma ni la kasi pi kule ale li lon,
      Inside this land, there are plants of all colors,
  2. spectrum
  3. (rare, by analogy) any intrinsic or sensory attribute, such as flavor, smell, timbre, pitch, and texture
    Synonym: poki

Verb

Toki Pona/kule

  1. (transitive) to be or turn colourful; to colour, to paint

Adjective

Toki Pona/kule

  1. colourful, pigmented, painted
  2. on a spectrum, diverse
  3. (figuratively, relational) LGBT
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Hyponyms

References

Further reading

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