lie
34 Kiribati words
- kewe
- Bingham to lie, to falsify.
- Sabatier a lie, fraud, fiction, artifice.
- wene
- Bingham to lie down, to lie.
- Sabatier to lie, stretch on ground, be lying down, lying flat,... well,... badly,... on back <supine>,... on side,... face down <prone>.
- bara ni kewe
- Bingham to lie.
- bokautea
- Bingham to lie, to deceive.
- bokewe
- Bingham to lie, to deceive.
- wikotaua
- Bingham to lie, to deceive.
- inibao
- Sabatier lying <lie> down (a group or crowd).
- Sabatier lying <lie> pell-mell.
- kabouba
- Bingham to lie with the head upon the folded arms.
- Sabatier kakabouba (lean one's chest on) to lie on one's chest, hands under chin.
- kewetaia
- Sabatier to lie openly.
- raraeua
- Bingham to lie restlessly.
- botararake
- Bingham to lie on the back.
- kabotararake
- Sabatier to lie on the back.
- arori
- Sabatier to lie at full length.
- uarao
- Bingham deceive, lie, prevaricate.
- angabuki
- Bingham lie butt to butt, as two logs.
- babaki
- Bingham to lie or sleep on the ground anywhere.
- kaweneraoa
- Bingham to make to lie properly or comfortably.
- wene katoto
- Sabatier to remain lying <lie> down all the time.
- inneti
- Bingham lie or range in a straight line, be straight.
- kainroai
- Bingham to make to lie down in numbers (plural form).
- ai
- Sabatier ai ko keve!: nonsense!, you are telling a lie!
- inra
- Bingham lie haphazard, as persons or planks in disorder.
- kamae
- Bingham to lie down outside of where one is wont to lie.
- babako
- Bingham to lie as an infant in the arms or lap of a person.
- wa tangaina
- Sabatier wa n tangaina: lying <lie> down face upwards <supine>.
- bao
- Sabatier kabaoa: to spread out, to stretch out, to lie at full length.
- bukiniwaea
- Bingham to lie so related to another as to have one's feet near his head.
- tararake
- Sabatier wene n tararake: to be lying, to lie on back, face up,... <supine>.
- kewenimakina
- Sabatier to tell a lie to make someone hurry or to make them act, ironical lie.
- kauanging
- Bingham to lie on the side withe fists for a pillow, and with the limbs drawn up.
- uaraoa
- Sabatier to lie to..., to cheat, to trick by lies, humbug, fabulous tales, impostures.
- wibeka
- Sabatier to talk incessantly, to exaggerate, to romance, to tell lies in joking <joke>.
- bobaraki
- Sabatier to stoop, to bow, to bend the head, to lower the body, to be prostrate, to lie face downwards.
- inroa
- Sabatier lying <lie> lengthwise, stretched out, strewn on the ground, orientated <oriented> downwards (is said only of things or persons stretched out, lengthwise in a group, crowd, mass).