meaning
color, pigment; category, genre, flavor; colorful, diverse
semantic space · lipamanka
kule are aspects of senses. The most prototypical version of this is color, an aspect of sight, but kule can also refer to aspects of other senses. Here are some possibilities: For sound, kule can refer to timbre or pitch. For taste, kule could be a flavor. For touch, kule could be a type of texture. There are plenty of ways to be creative with kule, but the most common uses besides "color" are the ones I've listed associated with sound. In my opinion, kule needs more exploration, so for any proficient speakers reading this, go experiment with it!
pu verbatim
- ADJECTIVE colourful, pigmented, painted
ku translations
colour100 diverse36 LGBTQ+35 paint33 gay30 lesbian30 spectrum27
usage
core · 99% usage
found in pu
coined pre-pu
origin
Acadian French · couleur ‘color’
coined by jan Sonja
listen
kala Asi
jan Lakuse
commentary
in addition to its pu-definitions, kule is sometimes used to talk about more general kinds of categories, like type, kind, flavour, gender, etc.
sitelen pona
kulecolor radical; perhaps the horizontal line indicates the sense of “the concept itself”. or perhaps a pictogram of light passing through a prism (color radical)
sitelen sitelen
sitelen jelo
🌈
sitelen Emosi
🌈
ucsur
U+F191E