kastom

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jump to navigation Jump to search

English

[edit]
English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia

Etymology

[edit]

Borrowed from Tok Pisin kastom, itself from English custom.

Pronunciation

[edit]

Noun

[edit]

kastom (uncountable)

  1. (Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu) In Melanesia, the assertion of traditional values and cultural practices in a modern context.
    • 2000, David L. Hanlon, Geoffrey Miles White, Voyaging Through the Contemporary Pacific, page 392:
      At the same time many of these politicians established an intellectual rapprochement between kastom and Christianity.
    • 2008, Sinclair Dinnen, Stewart Firth, Politics and State Building in Solomon Islands, page 200:
      The disturbance of kastom is what Moore sees as the root cause of the outbreak of violence during the crisis.

Anagrams

[edit]

Tok Pisin

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

Inherited from English custom.

Pronunciation

[edit]

Noun

[edit]

kastom

  1. kastom; traditional practices, especially as done by the bus kanaka

Usage notes

[edit]

This is a false friend with English. A custom, in the sense of something that one usually does, is pasin.