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mat

70 Kiribati words

• rabaraba
  • Bingham a mat worn like a poncho.
  • Sabatier a mat, cloak with hole to pass head through, cape.
• kaburaerae
  • Bingham a waist-matwith an ornamental upper fringe.
  • Sabatier a mat, lavalava (half mat) tied under armpits and with fringe.
• ntangenge
  • Bingham a coarse mat.
  • Sabatier mat (kie) made of wide strips.
• wewene
  • Sabatier second half of a double mat which is woven on to first half.
  • Bingham a completed mat.
• inai
  • Bingham coconut leaf mat.
  • Sabatier a mat of coconut leaves; iteraninai: a half mat.
• taea
  • Bingham a second best mat.
  • Sabatier te taea, te taea ni wae: a door mat.
• bakarouaba
  • Bingham a large sleeping mat.
  • Sabatier an ancient double mat (ideal and imaginary) used as form of respect and tenderness towards a person to be honoured, honourable formula.
• ekira
  • Bingham edge or border of a mat.
  • Bingham finish off the edge of a mat.
• kie
  • Bingham a mat of pan leaves split.
  • Sabatier a mat of pandanus leaves used for sleeping.
• mataku
  • Bingham unevenly braided as a mat.
  • Sabatier a mat badly woven, not flat.
• ngabingabi
  • Bingham a mat used as a spread or container for food.
  • Sabatier (1) a small mat used as plate.
• burebure
  • Bingham a waist-mat with a long lower fringe.
  • Sabatier a mat lavalava, with long fringe.
• bakarube
  • Bingham a covering, either a mat or cloth.
  • Sabatier something to drape oneself in. a cover, veil, cloak, shawl, toga, mat (used mostly in figurative or poetic style), nimbus, shadow, halo of light, covered by moonbeams.
• kaburena
  • Bingham to braid or weave a mat called kabure.
  • Sabatier to weave a mat with kabure design.
• kabae
  • Bingham a waist-mat cord prepared for lashing.
  • Sabatier special mat for dancers going from armpits to knees, tied at the waist with a rope of women's hair, mat lavalava.
• roba
  • Bingham a very coarse mat made of the pan leaf.
  • Sabatier a large coarse mat made of pandanus leaves.
• raeroba
  • Bingham a coarse mat used for flooring purposes.
  • Sabatier a coarse mat made of pandanus leaves, split larger than for kie.
• touroba
  • Bingham the work of braiding a roba or coarse mat.
  • Sabatier to weave a coarse mat (tou inai), etc.
• touanikai
  • Bingham the second half of the braiding of a mat.
  • Sabatier v.t. touanikaia: mat weaving <weave>, procedure at beginning of weaving.
• babatu
  • Bingham a mat just begun, the first half of a mat.
  • Sabatier a mat just commenced Nei Babatu: the woman who made the first mat. <myth>.
• mataroba
  • Bingham having wide strands as a mat, coarsely braided.
  • Sabatier a coarse mat made with wide leaves, kind of roba.
• be
  • Bingham a waist-mat.
• kamaerere
  • Bingham a striped mat.
• batunga
  • Bingham to begin a mat.
• waea
  • Sabatier (2) an outsize mat.
• bena
  • Bingham to wear a waist-mat.
• kinaoi
  • Sabatier a mat just finished.
• ata
  • Bingham broad as a mat or cloth.
• ruarua
  • Sabatier a mat for catching fish.
• raranga
  • Bingham to braid a mat, to weave.
• kabu
  • Sabatier (S.) a mat covering, a sheet.
• wau
  • Bingham a mat with some dark strands.
• bengabenga
  • Sabatier a kind of basket mat flat open.
• raurau
  • Sabatier plate, dish, mat used as plate.
• tangenge
  • Sabatier a small mat of single thickness.
• kaunta
  • Sabatier a mat woven in different colours.
• kabo ni makin
  • Sabatier a coarse mat (inai, not double).
• iteraninai
  • Sabatier a half mat, tide halfway in or out.
• waua
  • Bingham to braid a mat with a second color.
• taurobaroba
  • Sabatier a very large mat almost roba size.
• iraniwanin
  • Bingham strand of pan leaf for mending a mat.
• kouti
  • Bingham a small mat worn about the shoulders.
• wanin
  • Bingham to engage in mending a hole in a mat.
• kakiekie
  • Bingham to engage in providing one with a mat.
• baiku
  • Bingham unduly wide as a mat unskillfully made.
• kienikaraba
  • Bingham to cover over the shoulders with a mat.
• kaneboa
  • Bingham to draw up a sleeping mat over the face.
• kabure
  • Bingham a game of spatting hands, a style of mat.
• wae ni makauro
  • Sabatier a mat with design resembling crab's feet.
• makuna
  • Bingham wellcovered over with mats as an oven-fire.
• tangaina
  • Bingham opened as a mat or book, lying on the back.
• wenea
  • Bingham to braid the second half of a sleeping mat.
• bebena
  • Bingham to cover or dress with a waist cloth or mat.
• batia
  • Bingham to fold up and lay aside as an unfinished mat.
• buara
  • Sabatier weaving <weave> of the finishing of edge of mats.
• waenimakauro
  • Bingham a mat with figures resembling the tracks of a crab.
• ana
  • Bingham the part of an unfinished mat that has been braided.
• iranikie
  • Bingham wilted pan leaf for the dark strand in a mat or basket.
• iraniwenewene
  • Bingham strand lying near to be spliced in when weaveing a mat.
• kabangaka
  • Bingham to lay as a mat at right angles to a previous position.
• mainanikie
  • Bingham something light colored like a mat passing in the distance.
• taenananga
  • Bingham scratched as the skin, injured as a mat that is being braided.
• raureure
  • Bingham opening and shutting as the half of a coconut leaf mat in the wind.
• raeten
  • Bingham a mat whose strands are one third each of the width of the pan leaf.
• umauma
  • Bingham arched over, branched over, lifted up as the center of a sleeping mat.
• raibane
  • Bingham a smaller mat used in completing the covering of an oven in the ground.
• uma
  • Bingham started, moved as a rock lifted a little in the middle as a mat spread out.
• ninira
  • Sabatier any kind of covering, wrapping, veil, sheet, shroud, blanket, mat, cloak, etc.
• karikimata
  • Sabatier to make the first meshes of net, or first line of weaving a mat, to begin the making of...
• bakatarawa
  • Sabatier a half-size coarse mat, made of coconut leaves, used for canoes (inai), placed on canoe at place of this name.