meaning
ijo wan li lon anpa pi ijo ante la, ijo nanpa tu li lon sewi. ante la, ijo wan li anpa tawa ijo ante la ijo nanpa tu li ken lawa e ijo nanpa wan li ken suli tawa ijo nanpa wan.
see also
semantic space · lipamanka
anpa refers to the space (or sometimes object) below something. For example, "anpa supa" is the space under a table. "anpa kasi" is the space under a plant. anpa can also refer to qualities of defeat and shame, such as beating someone in a game of chess. You can describe the loser as anpa, and you can use anpa as a verb to mean "beat." anpa can also talk about social stratification and hierarchy. A lower class person can be a jan anpa.
pu verbatim
- ADJECTIVE bowing down, downward, humble, lowly, dependent
ku translations
down96 bottom79 lower70 below58 defeat58 beneath57 under35 bow30 underlying25
usage
core · 99% usage
found in pu
coined pre-pu
origin
toki Kanse pi ma Akasi · en bas ‘below’
coined by jan Sonja
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commentary
lon tenpo pini tawa pu en tenpo kama tawa pu la jan mute li toki ni: nimi "anpa" li sama e nimi "ma anpa".
taso: pu li toki ni: nimi "noka" li sama e nimi "ma anpa".
sitelen pona
anpalocation radical + "container"; the latter perhaps from a truncated square for a general object (compare sinpin) or a container (compare poki). for the radical, see also how dots are used in blissymbols; compare blissymbol "below"
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