ACD - Austronesian Comparative Dictionary Online

*papan plank, board; floor boards of house

PMP papan plank, board; floor boards of house ⇫ ¶

WMP
Waray-Waray	papán ŋa bató	stone tablet
Moken	papan	plank
Cebuano	papán	stone slab
Maranao	papan	lumber, board; arrange checkers or chess (pieces) on board
Palauan	wlawl	floor
Tiruray	fafan	a sawed board, lumber; to make lumber or boards by hand
Yakan	papan	a plank, board (as for making a wall)
Mapun	papan	board; plank (usually and inch and a half or less thick)
Gayō	papan	plank, board
Acehnese	papeuën	plank (as in a coffin or grave)
Toba Batak	papan	board, plank; floor boards
Karo Batak	papan	plank, the plank floor; a chessboard
Iban	papan	long flat surface or thing
	papan kayuʔ	plank, board
Malay	papan sandar	backrest
	papan	plank; board; strake; flooring; numeral coefficient for games played on boards, such as chess and draughts
Mongondow	papan	stick or lath used to tap down the weft thread (in weaving)
Ngaju Dayak	ma-mapan	build a boat or ship; like a board, i.e. flat, even
	papan batu	a thin flat stone or a thin, flat piece of iron
	papan	board, plank
Tae'	papan	plank
Rejang	papeun	wooden board, plank
Wolio	papa	board, plank
	batu papa	writing slate
Makassarese	papaŋ	plank, board
Sundanese	papan batu	stone plate
	papan	plank, board; in a wider sense, any flat object; plank (of wood, stone, etc.)
Old Javanese	a-papan	using a shield, bearing a shield
	papan	board; (round wooden) shield
Javanese	papan	board
Balinese	papan catur	chessboard
	papan	board, plank
Sasak	papan	plank; slate; school board
Malagasy	fáfana	a piece of board for writing on, a lesson-board, a blackboard
Proto-Chamic	papa:n	board, plank
CMP
Kayeli	hahane	board
Buruese	papan	board
Yamdena	n-papan	stack on top on one another, of flat objects like boards
Manggarai	papaŋ	plank, board
Hawu	papa	plank
Wetan	papna	board, plank
SHWNG
Buli	fafan	plank

POC baban board, plank, side of canoe ⇫ ¶

OC
Hawaiian	papa	flat surface, stratum, layer, level, foundation; story of a building; class, rank, order; table; sheet, plate, shelf; flat, level
	hoʔo-papa	to place in rank or file; to put in order, to put in layers, overlay, as shingles; to make a shelf; to pack neatly
Woleaian	paap	plank, strake, the planking (of a canoe); to be provided with plank
Puluwat	paap	board, lumber, timber; canoe planks
	pápá-n limw	house board
Chuukese	paap	board, plank; board floor
Mokilese	pɔp	thin board or sheet of lumber
Kosraean	pæp	rib, side, raised sides of a canoe between front and rear gunwales
Nukuoro	baba	level (not bumpy); any sort of flat base (esp. the board on which mats are plaited), the consolidated reef under water or sand; the back of a human; the shell of a turtle, crab, etc
Kapingamarangi	baba	level, stretcher; board on which women plait mats
	baba hale	floor of a house
Gilbertese	baba	a board, plank, used for diverse purposes; a wash board, surf board, etc.
Manam	baba	flat; palm of the hand
Bugotu	pava	plank
Lau	baba-na	long side board of canoe
	baba	flat; a board; lower part of back; a wooden door
	ba-baba	a board, flat object
	baba-la	flatness
'Āre'āre	hapa	timber; a canoe seat
Molima	baba	lower plank on canoe side; to put planks on canoe
Sa'a	hapa	a canoe seat, removable
Dobuan	kaiwa ba-baba-na	board
Pileni	papa	board
Arosi	hapa	a board; flat; mid-seats of a canoe
Tawala	baba-	base, underneath, bottom
Anuta	papa	board, plank; any hard flat surface, as the top of a plank, a flat rock
Rennellese	papa	sounding board, beater of the , dancer to the ; to be flat, flattened; to flatten
Rotuman	papa	floor, or deck, if made of boards
Samoan	papa	board, plank; rock; make level, flatten
Futunan	papa	board, plank
Wayan	baba	board, plank, or other flat, wide piece of wood
	vaka-baba	have boards on, be boarded or planked
Fijian	bava	washstrake or upper planks of canoe
Niue	papa	flat
	faka-papa	to stack neatly in layers (as banana cases)
Tongan	papa	sawn timber, plank(s), board(s); flat hard sandstone forming a layer or bed at the coast in certain places; flat and smooth and hard (as a well-trodden track)
Maori	papa	anything broad, flat, and hard; flat rock, slab, board; earth floor or site of a native house; bed of a lake
Proto-Micronesian	papa	board, plank

Reconstructions

PMP	papan	plank, board; floor boards of…
POC	baban	board, plank, side of canoe

Note

Also Ida'an Begak pepan ‘planks’, Sasak banban ‘thick plank; plank above the corpse in a grave’, Rembong papan ‘writing board’ (< Malay), Rotinese papa ‘plank, board’ (probably < Malay), Eddystone/Mandegusu papene ‘board, plank of a canoe’, Toqabaqita aba ‘board, plank, strip, lath of something’. Although this term referred specifically to hewn planks used in the construction of houses or canoes, it also appears to have had the more general sense of ‘flat, hard surface’ or just ‘flat, of a surface’, as shown by the reflexes in Waray-Waray, Cebuano, Ngaju Dayak, Malagasy, Iban, Sundanese, Manam, Lau, Arosi, Samoan, Anuta, Maori, and Hawaiian. The shape of the POc reconstruction is unclear. Bugotu and Fijian agree in reflecting POc *bapan, and Sa'a, 'Āre'āre, Arosi hapa appear to be metathesized products of the same form. On the other hand, Palauan wlawl and hapa ‘plank’ in the Southeast Solomons could be used to support a PMP variant *panpan, in which case the expected POc continuation would be *paban. However, most Oceanic languages show identical reflexes of both consonants, and suggest POc *baba. Tentatively I adopt the reconstruction given here, and assume that the pan-Austronesian avoidance of dissimilar labials as the onsets of successive syllables caused most Oceanic languages to level the distinction between the first two consonants in this base.