Tok Pisin

Noun

tambaran

1. demon
2. spirit
3. ghost
4. ancestor

Derived terms

• haus tambaran

See also

• tumbuna
• daiman

References

• Ulrike Mosel, Tolai and Tok Pisin: the influence of the substratum on the development of New Guinea Pidgin (1980)
• Mühlhäusler, Peter (1983). "Samoan Plantation Pidgin English and the origin of New Guinea Pidgin", in Ellen Woolford and William Washabaugh: The Social Context of Creolization, 28–76.