pinis

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:

• pinis (completive aspect)
• bin (past tense)
• stap (progressive aspect or durative aspect)
• save (habitual aspect)
• bai/baimbai (future tense)

Verb

pinis intrans., transitive pinisim

1. be finished; done with