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coconut

283 Kiribati words

• tauno
  • Bingham a coconut, either a moimoto or onibua, which falls to the ground prematurely.
  • Sabatier (2) detached coconut.
• benimai
  • Bingham nearly fully ripe as a coconut.
  • Bingham a bitter or unpleasant tasting ripe coconut.
  • Sabatier a yellowing coconut.
  • Sabatier insipid coconut, tasteless...
• ota
  • Bingham coconut leaf tied around a tree whose fruit has been tabooed.
  • Bingham scraped coconut after the oil has been extracted.
  • Bingham bind a coconut tree with a coconut frond to prevent the stealing of coconuts.
  • Sabatier coconut after oil has been extracted, residue.
• ni
  • Bingham a coconut tree.
  • Sabatier coconut tree.
  • Goo & Banner coconut tree (k,z,sp).
• wae
  • Bingham a shriveled, undeveloped coconut including the husk.
  • Bingham blighted, as a coconut.
  • Sabatier (1) te wae: a freak coconut with no kernel, barren woman, impotent man, dried up fruit, freak, good for nothing.
• aribuni
  • Bingham short as a coconut spathe.
  • Bingham coconut tree having short spathes.
  • Sabatier coconut with short spathe.
• arinoko
  • Bingham slim or narrow as a coconut spathe or eyebrow.
  • Bingham coconut tree having slim spathes.
  • Sabatier 1. coconut with thin spathe.
• matari
  • Bingham coconut in its fortth stage.
  • Bingham spoken of a young coconut whose kernel is very soft.
  • Sabatier very young coconut with no kernel formed.
• amakai
  • Bingham coconut in its sixth stage of growth.
  • Bingham having reached the sixth stage of development, as a coconut.
  • Sabatier coconut nearly ripe (kernel nearly hard, water is acid).
• matarirebwe
  • Bingham spoken of a young coconut a little more mature than matari.
  • Bingham young coconut older than the matari.
  • Sabatier young coconut a little more mature than matari which explodes when opened.
• moi
  • Bingham ripe coconut ready to drop (in the ninth stage).
  • Sabatier ripe coconut.
• waka n ni
  • Sabatier coconut roots.
  • Bingham a root of the coconut tree.
• ari
  • Bingham coconut spathe.
  • Bingham put forth as coconut buds.
• eke
  • Bingham coconut of later stage than takataka.
  • Sabatier an old coconut.
• bunia
  • Bingham the sweet husked coconut. the green husk is often chewed as sugar cane.
  • Sabatier a sweet coconut.
• benikangkang
  • Bingham a very relishable ripe coconut.
  • Sabatier a delicious coconut.
• ewanin
  • Bingham husk of the coconut.
  • Bingham much littered or covered with coconut husks.
• bukimaere
  • Bingham a coconut almost ripe, the fifth stage.
  • Sabatier a coconut nearly ripe.
• ben
  • Bingham a general term for a ripe coconut.
  • Sabatier ripe coconut, coconuts.
• benroro
  • Bingham fully ripe as a coconut.
  • Sabatier a ripe coconut with husk getting black.
• boka
  • Bingham decayed as ripe coconut.
  • Sabatier decayed coconut for malicious magic.
• ene
  • Bingham very young coconut tree.
  • Bingham being in the ene stage, as a coconut tree.
• toto
  • Bingham soft as a young coconut.
  • Sabatier (2) a coconut just beginning to have water inside.
• beniben
  • Bingham abounding in ripe coconut.
  • Bingham a ripe coconut whose kernel is unusually hard.
• aoka
  • Bingham water which is poured on scraped coconut as a solvent.
  • Bingham mix grated coconut with water.
• aong
  • Bingham scraped coconut mixed with other food.
  • Bingham seasoned with scraped coconut.
• bokakua
  • Bingham rotten, decayed, as a coconut.
  • Sabatier a decayed coconut changed to oil before opened.
• momoka
  • Bingham decayed or rotten as a coconut.
  • Sabatier a rotten coconut, rotten, mildewed (coconuts).
• onibua
  • Bingham young coconut in the third stage.
  • Sabatier a coconut fallen before maturity.
• karaoi
  • Bingham a young coconut, the onibua well oiled for purposes of incantation.
  • Sabatier undeveloped coconut used in magic.
• nikoi
  • Bingham a young coconut in the second stage.
  • Sabatier a coconut growing, not yet mature.
• nibaeai
  • Bingham a young coconut tree bearing fruit.
  • Sabatier a young coconut tree of which wood is still soft. a coconut tree or plant bearing fruit early.
• bentiki
  • Bingham a ripe coconut whose kernel is unusually hard.
  • Sabatier a ripe coconut with very tough kernel.
• matarikiriki
  • Bingham spoken of a coconut - shell cup with broken edges.
  • Bingham coconut - shell cup with nicked edges.
• memea
  • Bingham stained yellow by the juice of a green coconut husk.
  • Bingham stain from the husk of a young coconut.
• nimoimoi
  • Bingham a very small young coconut (first stage).
  • Sabatier a coconut just beginning to take form (about size of an egg).
• bikoko
  • Bingham a young coconut with well developed kernel, but soft, a moimoto.
  • Sabatier a young coconut, kernel just beginning to form.
• nimoibung
  • Bingham a young coconut (in the second of twelve stages).
  • Sabatier a coconut a little bigger than nimoimoi. (water just beginning to form inside.).
• uto
  • Bingham sprouted coconut very recently planted, a very young coconut tree.
  • Sabatier te uto: a young coconut plant, having no trunk.
• arinanti
  • Bingham coconut ari or bud which fails to set or mature.
  • Bingham fail to develop a fruitful ari as a coconut tree.
• aroaroka
  • Bingham have or possess coconut trees growing on another person's land.
  • Bingham custom of possessing coconut trees on another's land.
• ba
  • Bingham coconut oil, a general term for oil, a coconut shell oil bottle.
  • Bingham the midrib or main stem of the coconut frond, a leaf.
• moimoto
  • Bingham coconut well developed, but soft (in the fifth stage).
  • Sabatier young coconut at stage when pulp begins to harden (good to drink).
• ukinana
  • Bingham eating out the kernel of a coconut with the teeth, gnaw.
  • Bingham eat out the kernel from a coconut with the front teeth.
• kaonanti
  • Bingham to engage in stealing bunches of coconut by sliding them down a long rope.
  • Bingham the stealing of coconut by sliding them down a long rope.
• bebe
  • Bingham the germ sprout, the soft contents of a sprouting coconut.
  • Sabatier sponge-like formation inside a germinated coconut (te riki), spongy ball.
• tiriam
  • Bingham to engage in stripping off the dead leaves of a coconut tree.
  • Bingham the work of stripping off the dead leaves of a coconut tree.
• nono
  • Bingham a perquisite or recompense in the form of a coconut given to the climber for gathering coconuts.
  • Sabatier a coconut dropped from a bunch as specimen to see if it is at the stage desired.
• ai(i)
  • Luomala coconut crab.
• kani
  • Bingham coconut wood.
• niro
  • Sabatier black coconut.
• benu
  • Bingham a coconut husk.
• uenari
  • Bingham coconut blossom.
• inai
  • Bingham coconut leaf mat.
• kamaimai
  • Bingham coconut molasses.
• bukiri
  • Sabatier part of a coconut.
• koiriki
  • Bingham a coconut scraper.
• boua
  • Bingham a dry coconut husk.
• kora
  • Bingham coconut fiber cord.
• rin
  • Bingham a dry coconut leaf.
• koikoiniben
  • Bingham curdled coconut sap.
• tari
  • Bingham flowing coconut sap.
• uakangkang
  • Sabatier a delicious coconut.
• bakanutao
  • Sabatier ordinary coconut oil.
• era
  • Bingham stripped of coconuts.
• ibu
  • Bingham coconut shell bottle.
• koi
  • Bingham a very young coconut.
• riki
  • Sabatier a germinated coconut.
• ru
  • Bingham doubled as a coconut.
• uaba
  • Bingham carrying coconut oil.
• urokau
  • Sabatier head of coconut palm.
• ato
  • Bingham thatch of coconut leaf.
• maibinnana
  • Bingham piece of coconut shell.
• manua
  • Bingham roasted coconut kernel.
• nana
  • Bingham half of a coconut shell.
• tatari
  • Bingham giving much coconut sap.
• kabaka
  • Bingham candied coconut molasses.
• tai ataei
  • Sabatier (2) a very young coconut.
• tinima
  • Bingham to broil coconut, to fry.
• ue n ari
  • Sabatier flowers of coconut spathe.
• aneane
  • Bingham gather coconut from a tree.
• koromaka
  • Bingham scented boiled coconut oil.
• maea
  • Bingham rope of coconut husk fiber.
• nini
  • Sabatier abounding in coconut trees.
• ranni
  • Bingham the water in a ripe coconut.
• taberanikai
  • Bingham kabubu mixed with coconut.
• ibeua
  • Bingham break a coconut into halfves.
• bakanimtaoa
  • Bingham to prepare boiled coconut oil.
• boimoka
  • Sabatier the odour of decaying coconut.
• bonubonu
  • Bingham coconut oil scented with same.
• ubu
  • Bingham softer end of a green coconut.
• bakabane
  • Bingham second stage of a coconut leaf.
• kanara
  • Bingham about to die as a coconut tree.
• koromaneka
  • Bingham to cut steps in a coconut tree.
• okaia
  • Bingham store ripe coconuts in a house.
• tanginikimoa
  • Bingham a coconut not quite fully ripe.
• okai
  • Bingham house for storing ripe coconuts.
• taetango
  • Sabatier (1) to take tango off coconut.
• bekei
  • Sabatier a preparation of taro and coconut.
• kaiai
  • Bingham a coconut tree in the third stage.
• taume
  • Bingham the stem of a cluster of coconuts.
• ububu
  • Bingham tender germ-top of a coconut tree.
• wanimarawa
  • Bingham to cultivate a young coconut tree.
• benikai
  • Sabatier ripe coconut with very hard kernel.
• buariari
  • Bingham fragrant as very fresh coconut sap.
• bunra
  • Bingham to take ripe coconut from the tree.
• kaburiburi
  • Bingham coconut oil prepared for anointing.
• karewe
  • Bingham the fresh sap from the coconut bud.
• manam
  • Bingham preparation of babai and coconut.
• taranikakoko
  • Bingham a charmed necklace of coconut leaf.
• unaririkia
  • Bingham strip a coconut tree of its leaves.
• bibinoka
  • Bingham to engage in twisting coconut fiber.
• burongorongo
  • Bingham having the scent of old coconut oil.
• kaauau
  • Bingham kabubu mixed with scraped coconut.
• kanoua
  • Bingham a coconut fiber cord of two strands.
• kinati
  • Bingham the youngest leaf of a coconut tree.
• koran
  • Bingham a thread or fiber of a coconut husk.
• maemaeki
  • Bingham picking to pieces as a coconut husk.
• maru
  • Sabatier a coconut which rattles when shaken.
• winiwete
  • Bingham the outer end of the coconut spathe.
• bonubonua
  • Bingham to scent coconut oil with bonubonu.
• kawara
  • Bingham a break in the line of coconut trees.
• matababai
  • Bingham coconut tree with a close hard grain.
• ninibao
  • Bingham curved up. warped, as a coconut husk.
• tangana
  • Bingham a preparation of babai and coconut.
• tubwere
  • Sabatier pulp of coconut boiled down into pap.
• uananti
  • Bingham blighted or poorly developed coconut.
• enene
  • Bingham abounding in very young coconut trees.
• ikawaiwewe
  • Bingham too old for sap as a spathe <coconut>.
• kona
  • Bingham a cord or twine made of coconut fiber.
• marai
  • Bingham kernel of a coconut in its soft state.
• bangu
  • Bingham a fallen young coconut, eaten by a rat.
• bokatoto
  • Sabatier decomposed, rotten (coconut and fruit).
• koro
  • Bingham a stick for husking coconut, a javelin.
• orin
  • Bingham binding dry coconut leaves for torches.
• ribaeai
  • Sabatier young coconut tree (bigger than uto).
• taiikawai
  • Bingham in a mature stage, as a coconut spathe.
• takataka
  • Bingham copra, the dried kernel of the coconut.
• irotuma
  • Bingham give to coconut oil a certain fragrance.
• niningaun
  • Sabatier a coconut tree with big number of fruit.
• urukau
  • Bingham core of a coconut tree at its upper end.
• maibua
  • Bingham broken in two as a dish or coconut shell.
• obakia
  • Bingham bind roughly a coconut frond for a torch.
• rabirabi
  • Bingham wide laterally as a coconut shell bottle.
• ranniben
  • Bingham milk made from scraped coconut and water.
• ruonako
  • Bingham a bunch of coconuts fallen to the ground.
• tangananikabo
  • Bingham a mixture of kabubu, coconut and water.
• binoka
  • Bingham strands of coconut fiber for making twine.
• bunna
  • Bingham a young coconut leaf when used in sorcery.
• ibea
  • Bingham break open as a coconut, break up as bait.
• kannana
  • Bingham a large bag or sack made of coconut twine.
• kanni
  • Sabatier wood, timber, trunk, lath of coconut tree.
• maibiua
  • Bingham broken in two, as a dish or coconut shell.
• burungurung
  • Bingham having a pleasant odor of good coconut oil.
• kaamwia
  • Bingham to let a coconut tree mature all its fruit.
• kokoa
  • Bingham to scrape a coconut kernel with a koikoi.
• taera
  • Bingham to scrape out the soft kernel of a coconut.
• tara
  • Bingham a coconut leaflet used as a towel, a towel.
• tawere
  • Bingham a towel, a coconut leaflet used as a towel.
• unaririki
  • Bingham stripping off old leafves of coconut trees.
• binobino
  • Bingham a coconut shell bottle for coconut molasses.
• kamoimotoa
  • Bingham to wait for a coconut to become a moimoto.
• nokomaka
  • Bingham a stiff reddish midrib of a coconut leaflet.
• boimanua
  • Bingham having the smell of a burning coconut kernel.
• buniababai
  • Bingham a sweet husked coconut, specially relishable.
• ibunikatio
  • Bingham coconut shell for water not tied to a second.
• mata
  • Bingham deteriorated as coconut molasses through age.
• riribuki
  • Bingham the half of a ripe coconut opposite the eyes.
• tairaoi
  • Bingham in an intermediate stage as a coconut spathe.
• wanin
  • Sabatier coconut husk, cut in halves (shell and husk).
• karaunoa
  • Bingham to pluck a single coconut from a bunch gently.
• karuoruo
  • Bingham fresh sap of the coconut tree, fresh karewe.
• katarin
  • Bingham to engage in removing the kernel of a coconut.
• taitoki
  • Bingham a coconut spathe in its third stage of growth.
• ninikabongira
  • Sabatier coconut tree producing nuts resembling bunia.
• ranimauna
  • Bingham an old coconut without milk, in the 10th stage.
• taiataei
  • Bingham in a somewhat tender stage as a coconut spathe.
• taoakai
  • Bingham to engage in extracting coconut oil in a press.
• kakoko
  • Bingham the young straight coconut leaf, not yet opened.
• tounene
  • Bingham turned upward as the topmost coconut in a bunch.
• aongia
  • Bingham mix scraped coconut with other food for a relish.
• ba raerae
  • Sabatier coconut tree with leaf just beginning to foliate.
• banikimaimai
  • Bingham a young coconut leaf, leaflets not yet separated.
• bunibun
  • Bingham to engage in pulling or gathering ripe coconut s.
• iningao
  • Bingham carrying a coconut in the teeth while descending.
• nananikanei
  • Bingham large coconut shell cup for receiving boiled oil.
• taribo
  • Bingham boiled to a medium thickness as coconut molasses.
• kaben
  • Bingham coconut molasses mixed with coconut milk strained.
• kabenga
  • Bingham a lashing for the feet in climbing a coconut tree.
• karekereke
  • Bingham not slippery, as a dry coconut truck when climbed.
• kataraia
  • Bingham to strip off a coconut leaflet for a little space.
• kou
  • Bingham to come out as the central germ of a coconut tree.
• tai eta
  • Sabatier coconut at stage of kernel just beginning to form.
• tangauri
  • Bingham scraped pan pulp often mixed with scraped coconut.
• bukakokoa
  • Bingham to pull off the sprout at the top of a coconut tree.
• kareberebe
  • Bingham very thick coconut molasses that pops while boiling.
• koikoi
  • Bingham to engage in scraping a coconut kernel with a shell.
• rabutekawanikai
  • Bingham a coconut leaf charm, or fetish, of a certain style.
• tabanura
  • Bingham a coconut spathe for karewe not bound at the base.
• tango
  • Bingham the part of a coconut to which the stem is attached.
• kaingunakoa
  • Bingham to strip off all the coconut on a stem with the foot.
• katua
  • Bingham to test a coconut spathe as to the amount of its sap.
• amoimoto
  • Sabatier coconut a little riper than moimoto, nearly aieta.
• obo
  • Bingham broken off as the head of a fish or as a coconut leaf.
• raebaea
  • Bingham to strip a coconut tree of more or less of its leaves.
• tatabun
  • Bingham containing more than ten each, as bunches of coconuts.
• tanga
  • Bingham a coat of mail, without sleeves, made of coconut fiber.
• kabetanga
  • Bingham a drink containing kabubu, coconut molasses and water.
• rinika
  • Bingham blighted or defective, as the kernel of a young coconut.
• ruanibenu
  • Bingham a small pit or cistern in which to soften coconut fiber.
• iningaoa
  • Bingham carry a coconut by the teeth in descending from the tree.
• kamakewe
  • Bingham to engage in eating ungrated or unscraped coconut kernel.
• marewe
  • Bingham young coconut leaf partly opened, fresh growth of leaves.
• noa
  • Sabatier te noa: a coconut containing corrupted premature water.
• koriri
  • Bingham the extreme portion of a coconut leaf used in incantation.
• nira
  • Bingham a small roll of coconut cord for tying the coconut spathe.
• ruruai
  • Bingham abundant as bunches or clusters of nuts on a coconut tree.
• tengaun
  • Bingham ten, one hundred coconuts, really ten bunches of ten each.
• aneka
  • Bingham climb a coconut tree for the purpose of procuring the nuts.
• uniba
  • Bingham mock-fight by children using coconut leaf midribs as spears.
• bebene
  • Bingham to engage in stripping off the leaves of young coconut trees.
• karongo
  • Bingham stale, as coconut which has been long in a scraped condition.
• rabu
  • Bingham to engage in tying coconut leaves around fruit-trees tabooed.
• kaobotata
  • Bingham to tread on a coconut frond so as permanently to bend it down.
• obaki
  • Bingham rough binding of coconut fronds for torches, the torch itself.
• riba n amwi
  • Bingham a coconut which is small because crowded by the adjoining nuts.
• angitanaboabo
  • Bingham liable to calm streaks as a section in the lee of coconut trees.
• karaia
  • Bingham to make flexible, as a coconut leaf by wilting it under the sun.
• korokarewe
  • Bingham the process of securing karewe from the bud of a coconut tree.
• bukakoko
  • Bingham to engage in pulling off the very young leaves of a coconut tree.
• bungiba
  • Bingham a coconut tree whose fronds tend to droop down toward the ground.
• nimanonginong
  • Bingham having fine strands as a coconut fibre fish line, finely twisted.
• otaota
  • Bingham preparation of food, scraped coconut mixed with coconut molasses.
• kaukea
  • Bingham to completely scrape out a coconut, to do thoroughly, to complete.
• ibuntabonari
  • Bingham small coconut shell for use at the beginning of cutting the spathe.
• namta
  • Bingham portion of coconut molasses to be taken with the finger or a brush.
• raeba
  • Bingham to engage in stripping off coconut leaflets for obtaining the ba.
• raureure
  • Bingham opening and shutting as the half of a coconut leaf mat in the wind.
• ianriringa
  • Bingham scented oil made from scraped coconut exposed to the sun and boiled.
• kaneinea
  • Bingham to shake a coconut in order to know whether it still contains water.
• kuaroun
  • Bingham a basket made of coconut leaves from which the midribs are rejected.
• taeraea
  • Bingham to strip a coconut tree of all the young coconuts suitable for food.
• kataroua
  • Bingham to pour out a portion of the contents of a coconut shell of karewe.
• wairau
  • Bingham the process of fastening pandanus leaves to a coconut rib for thatch.
• buronikika
  • Bingham in the condition of a coconut tree or babai whose growth is stunted.
• bukirurunga
  • Bingham to resound, as falling coconut to backslide or fall away as christians.
• oioi
  • Bingham large circumference as a coconut tree, or the bulb root of the babai.
• riribukia
  • Bingham to reject as food the outer half of a coconut when it has been tabooed.
• nananimae
  • Bingham half coconut shell for holding oil for besmearing a wreath for the neck.
• kaukinana
  • Bingham to allow a young child to eat out the kernel of a coconut with its teeth.
• katawanou
  • Bingham to recut the coconut spathe at noon, in order to increase the flow of sap.
• takaruru
  • Bingham to rattle as the dried kernel of a coconut or a pebble in a coconut-shell.
• karengutu
  • Bingham a game in which effort is made to hit a coconut on the ground with a stick.
• toara
  • Bingham solitude in canoe sailing a coconut without a mate to which it can be tied.
• riri
  • Bingham a skirt, a skirt fringe of split coconut leaves, the usual dress of females.
• kaboka
  • Bingham scraped coconut left to rot in a container for the purpose of extracting oil.
• ngenge
  • Bingham what remains of the kernel of a coconut in a shell after it has been scraped.
• waea
  • Bingham a coconut leaflet for extracting from a bottle a small quantity of oil adhering.
• kamakorokoro
  • Bingham coconut oil extracted by boiling the liquid from pressed freshly scraped coconut.
• kamanging
  • Bingham fermented or intoxicating coconut sap, coconut oil obtained through fermentation.
• kamakorokoroa
  • Bingham to extract coconut oil by boiling the liquid from pressed freshly scraped coconut.
• kan n ara
  • Bingham in a fruitless dying condition, as a coconut tree, sick at the stomach, nauseated.
• ibunroro
  • Bingham preparation of babai mixed with squeezed coconut milk and a little coconut molasses.
• nawa
  • Bingham ripe coconut suspended in air by a rope tied high up on their tree for show or safety.
• kauaea
  • Bingham to let a coconut tree alone until full of nuts, to cultivate in order to make fruitful.
• bakanimtao
  • Bingham boiled, scraped, coconut after having been squeezed in a strainer: the oil from the same.
• karaebari
  • Bingham the half of a frond of a young coconut tree over the shoulder for ornament or incantation.
• bunniba
  • Bingham a piece of coconut wood or uri about one foot and a half long, used in defense or attack.
• raumea
  • Bingham a sieve, a strainer, often made of in, the fiber which binds the coconut frond to the trunk.
• roatana
  • Bingham to make a raft of ripe coconuts or firewood for the purpose of towing or transporting the same.
• tarin
  • Bingham a portion of the kernel of a ripe coconut which comes out in a piece while it is being scraped.
• kaurebaku
  • Bingham the process of winding the extreme end of a spathe of a coconut bud in prepararion for karewe.
• aieta
  • Sabatier coconut at a certain stage of ripeness (the kernel is hard but the water is still good to drink).
• roro
  • Bingham the spathe of a coconut tree when open, the open spathe which once contained the minute coconuts.
• ing
  • Bingham fibrous porous envelope at the base of the coconut leaf or frond that helps to bind it to the tree.
• onoba
  • Bingham put forth a new leaf in exchange for a falling old leaf of some babai plants, or of a coconut tree.
• tai toki
  • Sabatier mature coconut, spathe at the stage of giving less and less juice, when tide ceases to rise any higher.
• ritang
  • Bingham the innermost part of the husk of the bunia not chewed, the leaflets near the base of a coconut frond.
• kaurebakua
  • Bingham to tie or wind the extreme end of a coconut spathe for karewe, after removing a little portion of the outer rim.
• kabarara
  • Bingham to pour out water or oil from a coconut - shell bottle with the thumb or finger on the hole to regulate the stream.
• katang
  • Bingham a loud whistle as a signal a portion of a coconut leaf to be inserted in the mouth of a fish trap to prevent escape.
• rai
  • Bingham a plank, a board, a mat-covering for a native oven, a sort of seine made of coconut leaflets braided or secured with the rootlets of the pan tree.
• ngaun
  • Bingham ten used in counting bong, ririki, ritoro, inaki, atao, wa, and whenever a digit is followed by a numeral suffix, ai, ung, man, nga, kai, kora coconut are counted by bunches of ten.