fall
35 Kiribati words
- baka
- Bingham to fall.
- Sabatier to fall, to tumble, to overturn, to ruin.
- katiobuki
- Bingham to fall.
- Sabatier a waddling gait, fall on posterior, a tumble, a somersault.
- ruonako
- Sabatier fall, tumble.
- bukitau
- Sabatier a fall, not heavy or violent.
- ruo
- Sabatier fall, decline, reduction, ageing, elimination.
- bukirurunga
- Sabatier fall, collapse, rolling of thunder, bomb burst.
- matim
- Sabatier to fall, or drop, drop by drop, to drip slowly, to rain so.
- mrara
- Bingham scattered by falling.
- Sabatier to fall by bits, by grains, pieces.
- kabaka
- Bingham to make fall, to cast down.
- Sabatier to make fall, to knock down, to throw down.
- kabakabaka
- Bingham to engage in making to fall.
- Sabatier to make fall, to scandalize.
- bukitaua
- Sabatier a bad fall.
- bakara
- Bingham to fall upon.
- baka n nano
- Sabatier to fall in love.
- bakatuntun
- Sabatier to fall directly on.
- obotata
- Bingham fallen out as the front teeth.
- tirioboa
- Bingham to fall upon as a tree upon a house.
- karetuntun
- Bingham to stumble or strike or fall against.
- einakoa
- Bingham fall or come upon as a tree on a house.
- maeiei
- Bingham falling to pieces through decay or age.
- bakaobo
- Sabatier to be in jeopardy, to fall from weakness.
- einako
- Bingham slant as a tree, fall as a slanting tree.
- kaneakaki
- Sabatier going to fall, about to lose one's position.
- ingunako
- Bingham fall to pieces as a pandanus fruit or stone wall.
- tikumenga
- Sabatier to flop down, to fall over sideways, to lean over.
- bobaraki
- Bingham to fall prostrate on the face, to bow down the head.
- ma
- Bingham fall as a hair or leaf, or a feather in a moulting fowl.
- ingu
- Sabatier to move or fall with muffled sound, to make a muffled sound.
- nibakabaka
- Bingham to fall again and again as an intoxicated person trying to walk.
- turuna
- Bingham to accidentally subject some part of the body to being struck upon in a fall.
- beke
- Sabatier idiomatic word used only with bo, meaning a fall which takes the breath away.
- teibaka
- Sabatier badly balanced, ready to fall, about to lose balance, to fall, totter, stagger.
- tiri
- Sabatier titiri, tiritiri: to knock, to beat, to fall, to kill, to slaughter, to suppress, to lop off.
- wana
- Sabatier (2) e wawanira, e okiokirira te makuri: the work always falls to us, keeps coming back to us.
- kakom
- Bingham to fall short, as an article of food, to fish with bait tied to the line, but having no fish-hook.
- mori
- Sabatier mori, mori nako: to fall off tree from excessive ripeness, to faint away with tiredness, to bend under the burden.