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soft

40 Kiribati words

• mori
  • Bingham over-ripe very soft or yielding.
  • Bingham a very ripe soft fruit.
  • Sabatier soft, tender, over ripe, hunch backed, bent.
• titi
  • Bingham soft as food prepared for eating.
  • Sabatier soft, watery (paste, dough, soup).
• marau
  • Bingham somewhat soft.
  • Sabatier soft, tender, downy, flexible, supple, pliable, manoeuverable, easy to handle, to steer (canoe).
• rau
  • Sabatier soft, tender, flexible.
• maramara
  • Sabatier soft, feeble, too good-natured.
• katoto
  • Sabatier soft, apathetic (lit. and fig.).
• nanoubu
  • Sabatier soft, tender in the interior of trunk, soft blade.
• ruamakana
  • Bingham soft, flattening by its own weight, as moist tangauri.
• kabutikeke
  • Bingham soft and slippery as a path after rain.
  • Sabatier soft and slippery.
• toto
  • Bingham soft as a young coconut.
  • Sabatier bakatoto, korototo, katoto, mautoto, maungtoto: anything soft, slimy (flesh of young coconut, flesh of mollusc), soft flesh, decomposing...
• maraurau
  • Bingham quite soft.
• onibora
  • Bingham nasty, soft.
• maeai
  • Bingham soft through decay.
• maneouna
  • Sabatier brilliant, soft, oiled.
• kamarauraua
  • Bingham to make soft, to soften.
• manamana
  • Bingham mashed, crushed, soft, miry.
• kamatiratira
  • Bingham to make soft by much cooking.
• onga
  • Bingham soft or soggy as watery babai.
• nanomakana
  • Sabatier weak character, soft, weak willed.
• ububu
  • Bingham soft and tender as a young sprout.
• bamanio
  • Sabatier weak, soft, limp, flabby, sluggish.
• binaine
  • Bingham womanish as a man, effeminate, soft.
• mara
  • Bingham soft as an animal shedding its skin.
• em
  • Sabatier a coral stone, porous, soft and light.
• mangu
  • Sabatier mangun te ri, te ri ae mangu: soft bones.
• makone
  • Sabatier tender, soft, pliable (e.g. a child's skin).
• mama
  • Bingham easily broken as stone, easily crumbling, soft.
• noumangang
  • Sabatier idle, soft, no energy and slightly idiot, indolent.
• matiketike
  • Sabatier loose, slack. mostly used in fig. idle, soft, loose.
• moimoto
  • Bingham coconut well developed, but soft (in the fifth stage).
• mata n ei
  • Sabatier looking shaky, soft, limp, slack (as person half awake).
• inaine
  • Bingham gentle in manner, soft and refined in manners, mild, meek.
• tangauriuri
  • Sabatier of very weak consistency, very soft, friable, easily pulverized.
• bato
  • Sabatier coward, soft, faint hearted, pusillanimous, without energy, frightened.
• makana
  • Sabatier makanakana, mamakana: fragile, frail, delicate, tender, soft, not strong.
• non
  • Sabatier (2) soft and tough, leathery like certain mollusca which bend, twist but do not break.
• nonon
  • Sabatier (2) ae nonon: tough, leathery, soft but elastic, resisting, flabby; nonnon: idem.
• maiaia
  • Sabatier ka-maiaia: to make soft, supple by chewing, beating, hammering, to grind, to masticate.
• maoriori
  • Sabatier mamaoriori, nimaoriori: bending in every direction, disarticulated, soft, nerveless (as sick, tired, old person).
• bana
  • Sabatier bana banabana, kibana, kibanabana, aobanabana, nanobana, nanobanabana, manibana, manibanabana: without any resistance or spring or energy, soft, flabby, limp, inconsistent, indolent, incapable, good for nothing.