List of Ainu Terms - P

P

• pa (パ) - head; top, summit
  • pake (パケ) - head; top, summit
• pa (パ) - season, time of year; year, age
• papus (パプㇱ) - lip (also capus, patoy)
  • kanna-papus (カンナパプㇱ) - upper lip
• para (パラ) - wide, broad (cf. Japanese *piro- > hiro-, -biro "wide, broad" and various toponyms, such as Sapporo, Paramushir, Toyohara (Toyopara), etc.)
• paro (パロ) - mouth (possessed form paroho)
  • parunpe (パルンペ) - tongue (cf. Japanese pero-pero "lick lick (as said to a dog, etc.)" and dialectal or vulgar Japanese bero "tongue")
• pase (パセ) - to be heavy; to be important, to be valuable (also pasi in some dialects)
• pasuy (パスィ) - chopsticks (cf. Old Japanese *pasi or *ɸasi > Modern Japanese hashi "chopsticks")
• paye (パイェ) - to go
• paykar （パィカㇻ） - spring (season)
• pe (ペ) - a thing, a person, one (who is/does ~)
• pe (ペ) - water (especially that which is non-potable, not intended for drinking, or laden with much dissolved or suspended matter), moisture, sap, juice (possessed form pehe ペヘ)
• peko (ペコ) - cow, cattle (cf. べこ beko "cow, cattle" in various Japanese dialects)
• pene (ペネ) - thoroughly rotten, soft with decay, rotten and sticky or slimy
• pet　（ペッ） - river (appears in Hokkaido place names as betsu, e.g., Noboribetsu)
• pewre (ペゥレ) - to be young
• pi (ピ) - seed, kernel, pip; pebble (as on a riverbed), small stone (possessed form piye ピイェ or piyehe ピイェヘ)
• pinne (ピンネ) - male
• pira (ピラ) - cliff, precipice (cf. Old Japanese *yomotupirasaka ("the slope at the entrance to the realm of Hades, the sloping path that leads into the underworld"), Okinawan hwira "slope, hillside," Middle Korean byero ~ byerh- ~ birey ("cliff, precipice; craggy shore; the high or sloping part of an inkstone (as opposed to the depression in which liquid ink is collected)") > Modern Korean byeorang ("cliff, precipice") ~ byeoru ("an inkstone; a precipice at a seashore or at a riverbank"))
• pirka （ピㇼカ） - good, nice, fine, beautiful
  • pirka kur （ピㇼカクル） - a fine man (in the sense of "a good person, a virtuous person")
  • pirka okkay (ピㇼカオッカィ） - a fine man (in the sense of "a handsome man, a good-looking man")
  • pirka menoko （ピㇼカメノコ） - a beautiful woman, a fine young lady
  • pirka pa （ピㇼカパ）- a good year
• pis (ピㇱ) - coast, shore, beach
• po (ポ) - a child, (in some dialects especially) a son; a juvenile, the young of anything (possessed form ポホ poho; also frequently used as a diminutive suffix)
  • pon (ポン) - (to be) small, (to be) little
    • ponmat (ポンマッ) - a concubine
    • ponno (ポンノ) - few, a little (water to drink, etc.), a bit
• pok (ポㇰ) -
  • pokna (ポㇰナ) - lower, under, below, beneath
• pok (ポㇰ) - vulva, a female's private parts (possessed form poki or pokihi)
• pone (ポネ) - bone (cf. Old Japanese *pone or *ɸone > Modern Japanese hone ~ -bone "bone")
• popke (ポㇷ゚ケ) - to be warm
• poppe (ポㇷ゚ペ) - sweat, perspiration (formerly also ポㇷ゚ pop in some dialects)
• poro (ポロ) - big, large
  • poronno (ポロンノ) - many, much, a lot
• poru (ポル) - cave, pit, hole (in rock, etc.)
• poyna (ポイナ) - rock, stone (esp. one that is large)
• pu （プ）- an elevated structure in which to store food and other valuables (the traditional Ainu equivalent of a shed or a warehouse)
• pukusa (プクサ) - a kind of wild plant (Allium victorialis subsp. platyphyllum) that is prized by the Ainu for its pungent, garlic-like flavor (known in Japanese as Ainu negi "Ainu onion" or gyōja ninniku "wandering ascetic garlic")
• punki (プンキ) - a guard, a watchman
• put (プッ) - a confluence (of two rivers); a mouth (of a body of water), an outlet
• puy (プィ) - a hole
• puyar (プヤラ) - a window (also ピヤラ piyar, プララ purar, プラィ puray, or プワラ puwar depending on the dialect)