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pandanus

115 Kiribati words

• atumatoa
  • Bingham wide, strong pan leaf.
  • Bingham wide and strong as a certain pan leaf.
  • Sabatier 1. a certain kind of large pandanus leaf.
• ban
  • Bingham a pan.
  • Sabatier a pan.
• kinara
  • Bingham a pan log.
  • Sabatier trunk of pandanus tree.
• waka ni kaina
  • Sabatier pandanus roots.
  • Bingham a root of the pan.
• iko
  • Bingham seed of the pan.
  • Sabatier seed of certain varieties of pandanus (edible).
• rau
  • Bingham pan leaf thatch.
  • Sabatier thatch made of pandanus leaves.
• tuae
  • Bingham dried pan paste.
  • Sabatier pandanus pulp dried in layers on leaves.
• bukimaki
  • Bingham a short pan leaf.
  • Sabatier a young pandanus leaf not yet opened out.
• taba
  • Bingham the blossom of the pan.
  • Sabatier strongly perfumed white leaves of pandanus.
• ikabi
  • Bingham outer half of a pan bunch.
  • Sabatier 1. (i-kabi: in the bottom) part underneath, bunch of pandanus (opp. the stem of bunch).
• tina
  • Sabatier (3) te tina: a species of pandanus.
  • Goo & Banner screwpine (sp,z) <pandanus>.
• iria
  • Bingham pan leaf for packing kabubu.
  • Sabatier pandanus leaves <leaf>, polished and rolled, used for many purposes, for ex. as tubes for containing kabubu in reserve.
• arokai
  • Bingham young pan tree without branches.
  • Sabatier a young plant, pandanus tree, not yet bearing.
• kaina
  • Bingham a pandanus tree, the screw-pine.
  • Sabatier pandanus (over 300 known species).
• kaotinako
  • Bingham pan leaves gathered for compost.
  • Sabatier pandanus leaves <leaf> gathered together for compost.
• kereboki
  • Bingham pan paste dried in thick small cakes.
  • Sabatier a kind of cake made of pandanus (tuae).
• baki
  • Bingham pan leaves for enriching a babai patch.
  • Sabatier pandanus leaves tied in long bundles made into coils and put around taro plants.
• iri
  • Sabatier te iri n tou: detachable portions or sections of pandanus fruit.
  • Sabatier 1. a cubic ball made with te ira (pandanus leaf polished and woven).
• banikaina
  • Bingham a pan leaf.
• kingking
  • Bingham a slim pan nut.
• ba ni kaina
  • Sabatier pandanus leaves.
• ritoro
  • Bingham a roll of pan leaves.
• ira
  • Bingham pan leaf for braiding.
• urutongau
  • Sabatier a species of pandanus.
• utongau
  • Sabatier a species of pandanus.
• ububunara
  • Bingham new leafves of the pan.
• tawatawa
  • Sabatier (1) species of pandanus.
• anikomri
  • Sabatier 1. a species of pandanus.
• kie
  • Bingham a mat of pan leaves split.
• a
  • Bingham core base of the pan bunch.
• airoro
  • Sabatier a variety of pandanus fruit.
• annabai
  • Goo & Banner screwpine (sp,z) <pandanus>.
• aramarieba
  • Goo & Banner screwpine (sp,z) <pandanus>.
• aramaru
  • Goo & Banner screwpine (sp,z) <pandanus>.
• aramoroia
  • Goo & Banner screwpine (sp,z) <pandanus>.
• aranteba
  • Goo & Banner screwpine (sp,z) <pandanus>.
• bakororso
  • Goo & Banner screwpine (sp,z) <pandanus>.
• iribaikawa
  • Goo & Banner screwpine (sp,z) <pandanus>.
• irikiri
  • Goo & Banner screwpine (sp,z) <pandanus>.
• katine
  • Bingham a certain branch of the pan.
• tuairoa
  • Bingham a pan scraper made of shell.
• uronau
  • Goo & Banner screwpine (sp,z) <pandanus>.
• kai ni bwena
  • Sabatier laths cut from pandanus trunk.
• mammaniwaka
  • Bingham long external root of the pan.
• boibingibing
  • Sabatier odour of unripe pandanus fruit.
• eke
  • Sabatier a crisp cake of pandanus fruit.
• kamweara
  • Sabatier a fruitless pandanus (sterile).
• an
  • Sabatier to names of species of pandanus.
• kaibara
  • Bingham the lateral root of the pandanus.
• makamaka
  • Bingham spotted as an imperfect pan leaf.
• tou
  • Sabatier te tou: a whole pandanus fruit.
• au
  • Bingham pan leaf used in caulking a canoe.
• iri n tou
  • Sabatier piece or section of pandanus fruit.
• kabitoka
  • Sabatier the fibrous core of pandanus fruit.
• aung
  • Sabatier four (when counting pandanus fruit).
• nikararao
  • Bingham a pan leaf hoop, driven by the wind.
• ngka
  • Sabatier portion of pandanus which is sucked.
• iraniwanin
  • Bingham strand of pan leaf for mending a mat.
• itarawa
  • Sabatier te i tarawa: a species of pandanus.
• tiri
  • Bingham a side branchlet of pan for planting.
• bukiniri
  • Sabatier the end of pandanus fruit (nonedible).
• kabora
  • Bingham to knead, as pan pulp into thin plates.
• nimaningining
  • Bingham an oil scented with a certain pan leaf.
• roba
  • Bingham a very coarse mat made of the pan leaf.
• teina
  • Bingham one, used in counting divisions of pan.
• makei
  • Bingham thorn on the side of the pan leaf, barb.
• nga
  • Sabatier (4) portion of pandanus which is chewed.
• inaina
  • Bingham scaley as fish, or some varieties of pan.
• ritorona
  • Bingham to roll, or make into a roll, pan leaves.
• ara
  • Sabatier to names of different species of pandanus.
• moantai
  • Bingham being in the early part of the pan season.
• ti
  • Bingham pan nut or fruit section next to the stem.
• bobo
  • Sabatier 2. ripening fruit, pandanus harvest season.
• irauea
  • Bingham pan leaf bound on the arm in an incantation.
• kawete
  • Bingham to start to grow as a new branch of the pan.
• mama ni waka
  • Bingham lateral pan root before touching the ground.
• manibwebwe
  • Bingham outer part of a pan leaf at its base, chaff.
• rarai
  • Sabatier a part of pandanus fruit detached from whole.
• morinako
  • Bingham falling to pieces as an overripe bunch of pan.
• nikiniri
  • Sabatier pandanus grown from fruit and not from branch.
• taberamatoa
  • Bingham not yet, or slow in bearing fruit, as the pan.
• are
  • Bingham season in which the pan is approaching ripeness.
• karababa
  • Sabatier pandanus fruit cooked and dried, in oblong slabs.
• kawaiwai
  • Sabatier a species of kabubu: powdered fruit of pandanus.
• tangauri
  • Bingham scraped pan pulp often mixed with scraped coconut.
• kabakabaka
  • Sabatier to beat pandanus leaves with mallet to soften them.
• riki ni beti
  • Sabatier a pandanus tree grown from beti not from cutting.
• borau
  • Bingham to engage in collecting pan leaves for making a thatch.
• iranikie
  • Bingham wilted pan leaf for the dark strand in a mat or basket.
• bobukiniri
  • Sabatier to hit or beat the ends of pandanus before detaching them.
• matiratira
  • Bingham thoroughly cooked, or cooked soft as a pan nut or babai.
• tabataba
  • Sabatier edible part of pandanus fruit cut in slices ready to cook.
• taewa
  • Bingham a longitudinal slice of babai, a portion of a pan bunch.
• boiranikie
  • Sabatier to pull and bundle together pandanus leaves for making mats.
• kabarere
  • Sabatier pandanus fruit left to ripen fully in order to be eaten raw.
• taetoa
  • Bingham to engage in stripping off the central thorns of the pan leaf.
• buantinti
  • Sabatier a strange smell, peculiar to pandanus fruit, not its usual smell.
• rautara
  • Bingham to engage in stripping off the thorns on the edge of the pan leaf.
• raeten
  • Bingham a mat whose strands are one third each of the width of the pan leaf.
• ueburoung
  • Sabatier pandanus flower odour, fragrance of..., odoriferous, smelling like...
• wairau
  • Bingham to engage in sewing or fastening pan leaves to a stick for thatching.
• ung
  • Sabatier teina te ung, teungina, uang <uaung?>: one, two whole pandanus fruit.
• iriauriaria
  • Goo & Banner screwpine; large fruited var., blackish cast on leaves (sp,z) <pandanus>.
• bu ira
  • Sabatier bubu ira. to pull off or tear away pandanus leaves for mat weaving <weave>.
• ukia
  • Sabatier ukian te iri n tou: the nonedible end of drupe or segment of pandanus fruit.
• awaro
  • Sabatier a kind of food taken from stalk of pandanus (used only in time of famine). (S.).
• tabebaea
  • Bingham to turn the leaves as of a book, to gather a few pan leaves at a time when scarce.
• iritawatawa
  • Goo & Banner screwpine; tall straight trunk, used for supports in house building (sp,z) <pandanus>.
• kabubu
  • Sabatier preserved food made from pandanus fruit, a drink in which this food is mixed in water.
• babai n anti
  • Sabatier box, drawer, trunk of pandanus hollowed out and used as a chest for butu (war weapon).
• eba
  • Bingham pan leaf case containing the feathers of the eitei to be used in the game of kabane.
• unnuwaka
  • Bingham mock-fight with the side roots of pan or the stems of babai leaves as darts or javelins.
• beti
  • Sabatier betin te tou: the fibrous part of pandanus fruit, left after sucking (used as fuel when dry).
• tabanin
  • Bingham appearing distinctly as a coral isle at see, seen as a whole, seen as a bunch of pan to be ripe all over.
• 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.