pinis

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See also: piņīs

Cebuano

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: pi‧nis

Noun

pinis

  1. any of several bleeding-hearts found in the Philippines:
    1. the Negros bleeding-heart (Gallicolumba keayi)
    2. the Luzon bleeding-heart (Gallicolumba luzonica)
    3. the Mindanao bleeding-heart (Gallicolumba crinigera)
    4. the Sulu bleeding-heart (Gallicolumba menagei)
    5. the Mindoro bleeding-heart (Gallicolumba platenae))

Latin

Noun

pīnīs

  1. dative/ablative plural of pīnus

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English finish.

Particle

pinis

  1. Marks perfect or completive aspect
  2. (rare) Marks passive voice construction
    • 1995, John Verhaar, Toward a reference grammar of Tok Pisin: an experiment in corpus linguistics‎, →ISBN, page 433:
      Mekim olsem pinis, orait tupela i planim taro na banana, na kumu, painap, kon, tomato, na kaukau tu.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

See also

Tok Pisin tense and aspect markers:

Verb

pinis intrans., transitive pinisim

  1. be finished; done with
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