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Sacred

8 Kiribati words

• tabu
  • Bingham taboo, forbidden, sacred.
  • Sabatier taboo, tapu: prohibition, interdiction, sacred.
• bangota
  • Bingham a burial plot, a sacred enclosure, an ancient inheritance.
  • Sabatier a sacred place, covered with gravel and enclosed, used for sorcery and composing songs and dances, cemeteries and family tombs.
• nikawewe
  • Bingham a sacred or haunted place, not to be approached with safety.
• uria ni bati
  • Sabatier to sprinkle and hit with batiraku dipped in a kind of sacred water.
• ati
  • Sabatier te ati ni karema: money box Atiniban Ietu: Heart of Jesus, Sacred Heart.
• tabuterang
  • Sabatier forbidden, sacred, untouchable, under pain of madness (or other curse specified).
• taua n tabu
  • Sabatier same as preceding word but with nuance of sacredness. sacred substitute, untouchable.
• otabu
  • Sabatier a sacred place, forbidden to outsiders, prohibited, no admission, strictly prohibited.