kolofino

Cognate with Tidore kolofino (“afraid, scared”). Outside of North Halmahera, compare Sentani kulukulu.

• IPA^(key): /ˌko.lo.ˈfi.no/

kolofino (Jawi کلفينو)

1. (stative) to be afraid

   سبب کلفينو باتو ممناره ― sababu kolofino bato mamanara ― it was done out of fear (literally, “only because they were afraid did they act”)

   ݢناڤو کلفينو ― ganapu kolofino ― even more frightened

2. (stative) to be apprehensive
3. (stative) to be alarmed, concerned (out of fear)

   تلالو کلفينو ― talalu kolofino ― very alarmed

• kolfino, golofino, golfino

• Frederik Sigismund Alexander de Clercq (1890) Bijdragen tot de kennis der Residentie Ternate, E.J. Brill
• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh