Contionary:Toki Pona/lanpan

Toki Pona

lanpan in sitelen pona

Glyph origin

The sitelen pona glyph represents a person (drawn with a circle for the head and a line for the body) seizing an object (a dot). Compare tok ("jo") → [[Contionary:{{{3}}}|{{{3}}}]] ("{{{4}}}").

Verb

Toki Pona/lanpan

1. to take, to seize, to steal, to catch, to receive
   • 2021, Sonja Lang, Toki Pona Dictionary, →ISBN:

     kijetesantakalu tonsi li lanpan ala lanpan e soko?

     Does the non-binary procyonid steal mushrooms?

Usage notes

• This word was created by the Toki Pona community after the publication of Sonja Lang's book Toki Pona: The Language of Good (2014). It has since been recognized as essential vocabulary (nimi ku suli) by Lang in her 2021 publication The Toki Pona Dictionary.

See also

• alasa
• jo

Further reading

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