Tidore

Introduction

Tidore is a language of Indonesia. It is spoken in North Maluku Province. Tidore island. Ternate, Mare, and northern Moti islands. Also Halmahera island, west coast areas, facing in turn Tidore, Moti, and Kayaa islands.

Dialects

Similar to Ternate (See: Ternate?).

The Tidore Verb

Verblist

• horu

• ahu -- to live, be alive
• baso, sogise -- to hear
• cam -- to chew
• coho, soka -- to squeeze
• danata, tori -- to steal
• fai, gale, sofai -- to dig
• fela, hoi, tika -- to open, uncover
• fifi -- to suck
• fikir -- to think
• foi -- to throw
• foli -- to buy
• fori -- to turn
• gahi ngam -- to cook
• goli -- to bite
• hame -- to sniff, smell
• hoda -- to see
• honguci -- to spit
• iru -- to blow
• kanyafo -- to swim
• karaso -- to scratch
• koko -- to stand
• koru -- to kill
• madin -- to sew
• maguti -- to cut, hack
• masoka -- to hide
• matango -- to lie down
• nane -- to dream
• ohe -- to laugh
• oro woma -- to breathe
• otu -- to sleep
• oyo, talesa -- to eat
• pili -- to choose
• reke -- to cry
• sago, toga -- to split
• soganyaha -- to shoot
• sone -- to die, be dead
• soro, sosoro -- to fly
• tagi, tagi yohu -- to walk
• taji -- to stab, pierce
• tobe -- to tie up, fasten
• tokoho -- to fear
• torine -- to sit
• tumhoa -- to yawn
• una -- to vomit
• waro -- to know, be knowledgeable
• wonge -- to count
• yahu -- to grow
• yobo -- to swell
• yora -- to fall
• yuhi -- to flow
• yuru -- to drink