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leaf

46 Kiribati words

• ba
  • Bingham the midrib or main stem of the coconut frond, a leaf.
  • Sabatier leaf, palm, midrib of palm leaf, page of paper, card, leaflet.
  • Sabatier ba ni kai: leaves, leaf of tree.
  • Sabatier ba n ni: coconut leaf, palm branch <frond -- gwg>.
  • Sabatier ba kabane: top branch kakoko: white leaf of coconut not fully developed.
  • Sabatier te kinati: leaf of palm just beginning to appear.
  • Sabatier te ba ni kiokio: small leaf (of babai, ene).
  • Sabatier te ba raerae: leaf already divided into folioles.
  • Sabatier te ba ni boki, te iteraniba: leaf, page.
• onoba
  • Bingham put forth a new leaf in exchange for a falling old leaf of some babai plants, or of a coconut tree.
  • Bingham six leafves.
• banikinauere
  • Bingham dying or fading as a leaf, unthrifty, esp as a coconut leaf.
  • Bingham an unthrifty leaf.
• ambo
  • Bingham leaf red through age.
  • Bingham red as a leaf through age.
• atumatoa
  • Sabatier 1. a certain kind of large pandanus leaf.
  • Sabatier 2. palm leaf hard to detach.
• babobo
  • Bingham a fading leaf growing red or yellow.
  • Sabatier colour of withering leaf, yellow, tan.
• kinati
  • Bingham the youngest leaf of a coconut tree.
  • Sabatier (2) a bud. (3) smallest leaf in centre of kakoko.
• tebana
  • Bingham one leaf.
• banikaina
  • Bingham a pan leaf.
• ba rerei
  • Sabatier a healthy leaf.
• bukinikoriri
  • Sabatier end of palm leaf.
• uaba
  • Sabatier two leaves <leaf>.
• iteraniba
  • Bingham one side of a leaf.
• rin
  • Bingham a dry coconut leaf.
• bamate
  • Sabatier dead or dried up leaf.
• banuri
  • Bingham the leaf of the uri.
• ba niko
  • Sabatier beautiful leaf of tree.
• ububunara
  • Bingham new leafves of the pan.
• aba
  • Bingham four, in counting leafves.
• am
  • Bingham red leaf, red through age.
• nangoba
  • Sabatier base of coconut leaf <frond>.
• bakabane
  • Sabatier the centre or highest palm leaf.
• taranikakoko
  • Bingham a charmed necklace of coconut leaf.
• barobaro
  • Sabatier a certain leaf of taro which hangs down.
• kieura
  • Sabatier reddish leaves <leaf> (used in sorcery).
• koriri
  • Sabatier te buki n koriri: end of coconut leaf.
• bani
  • Sabatier a branch <frond - gwg> or leaf of coconut.
• unaririki
  • Bingham stripping off old leafves of coconut trees.
• mte
  • Bingham dry or decayed leafves used in fertilizeing.
• kaiao
  • Sabatier kaiaona: to manure with the kaiao <leaf>.
• banikimaimai
  • Bingham a young coconut leaf, leaflets not yet separated.
• kienene
  • Sabatier leaf of coconut tree, all in one piece, not split.
• kaotinako
  • Sabatier pandanus leaves <leaf> gathered together for compost.
• namata
  • Bingham leaf with which a torch is tied, or a fish for bakeing.
• katoka
  • Sabatier back part of coconut leaf, stripped off for divers uses.
• ma
  • Bingham fall as a hair or leaf, or a feather in a moulting fowl.
• raro
  • Sabatier dark or black leaves <leaf> for weaving designs in mats.
• barobaroba
  • Bingham the leaf proper of babai, not including the stem or stalk.
• taetoa
  • Bingham to engage in stripping off the central thorns of the pan leaf.
• waitoa
  • Sabatier waitoa:: to double leaves <leaf> when making rau (thatch).
• rauara
  • Sabatier the smooth side of pandanus leaf stripped off (used as cigarette paper).
• tababa
  • Sabatier wide spreading branches, leaves <leaf> (of trees, plants), fuzzy (hair).
• ni
  • Sabatier ua ni: fruit of... kanni: trunk of... (as timber)banni: leaf <frond> of...
• kakoko
  • Sabatier young central leaves <leaf> of coconut tree (used to make baskets, skirts, etc.).
• raibane
  • Sabatier leaves <leaf> of plants (uri, babai, etc.), used to cover earth oven during cooking.
• iria
  • Sabatier pandanus leaves <leaf>, polished and rolled, used for many purposes, for ex. as tubes for containing kabubu in reserve.