shelter
11 Kiribati words
- buibui
- Sabatier a shelter, screen, windscreen to protect from waves or spray.
- Sabatier buibuina: to shelter, to protect against wind, rain or waves.
- uma
- Sabatier any kind of dwelling, anything with roof, house, dwelling, hut, shelter, cabin, roof, tent, umbrella.
- Sabatier v. umana: to dwell in, under, to have as..., to take as one's dwelling, shelter.
- bareaka
- Sabatier shed, shelter for canoes.
- betanga
- Sabatier betangana: to protect, to shelter.
- umatoa
- Sabatier a large, strong shelter (house, canoe).
- tan
- Bingham becalmed under a lee, in the shelter of.
- katan
- Bingham to go into the lee of, to take shelter under the lee.
- katabiro
- Sabatier a wooden support, easel, trestle, transportable shelter.
- rabuna
- Sabatier raburabuna: to cover, to mask, to clothe, to shelter, to protect, to cover over.
- umana
- Sabatier to have, take, or use as dwelling, shelter, to use a tent, awning, umbrella for shelter, to shelter under...
- kateibaobao
- Sabatier to make platforms, shelter, supports. to make rafts, temporary embarkations (to escape in war-time formerly), to use these rafts to make escape, to ask and obtain mercy (in war). (that is to say, escape the same as if one had escaped on a raft).