kastom
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Tok Pisin kastom, itself from English custom.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
kastom (uncountable)
- (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
- 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.