strip
33 Kiribati words
- ira
- Sabatier a strip, a tress (of pandanus leaf), pandanus leaves destined for weaving.
- era
- Bingham stripped of coconuts.
- Sabatier ka-era: to strip, to lay bare.
- rautara
- Bingham to strip off the thorns on the edfe of a pandanus leaf.
- Sabatier to strip off thorny edge of pandanus leaf.
- ake
- Sabatier to card, to comb, to cut to pieces, to hackle, to strip.
- Sabatier akea, akeakea: to take off thorns or fish bones, to strip off, to disentangle, to separate, to tease or comb.
- ra
- Sabatier a piece, a strip, band put side by side to make a whole, a width. for ex. widths of material joined to make a sail.
- Sabatier bad, defective, improper, disagreeable, constrained, striped,.
- tae
- Sabatier kataea, kakataea: to remove, to pull off by separating, to strip off, to suppress, to cut off, to abolish.
- Sabatier tae, tatae: taken off <take off>, pulled off <pull off>, stripped from trunk (bark, branch).
- raerae
- Bingham to engage in stripping.
- raebwebwea
- Bingham to strip off as suckers.
- bwenea
- Bingham to strip off as dead leaves.
- nananga
- Bingham stripped of its bark or skin.
- raenoko
- Sabatier to strip leaf part off noko.
- koumangaia
- Bingham to strip a corpse of the teeth.
- raetenia
- Bingham to strip leaves into three parts.
- unaririkia
- Bingham strip a coconut tree of its leaves.
- ba
- Sabatier rae ba: strip palm of its folioles.
- kuota
- Sabatier kukuota, kuokuota: to peel, to strip.
- kuora
- Sabatier kuora: to peel, to skin, to strip off.
- rae
- Sabatier raereke: a narrow strip (land, cloth).
- unaririki
- Bingham stripping off old leafves of coconut trees.
- tanabaia
- Bingham to rob, to take by force, to violently strip.
- taeabea
- Bingham to strip a fishhook of its bait as a fish does.
- raeba
- Sabatier strip the midrib of coconut palm of its laminae.
- kataraia
- Bingham to strip off a coconut leaflet for a little space.
- tanabai
- Sabatier tanabaia: to strip, to rob, to rifle, to plunder.
- raebaea
- Bingham to strip a coconut tree of more or less of its leaves.
- inaki
- Sabatier 1. rows of thatch (rau, ato) strips of net, rows, lines, tiers.
- taeraea
- Bingham to strip a coconut tree of all the young coconuts suitable for food.
- kuo
- Sabatier (2) kukuo, kuokuo, kukuokuo: to peel, to shell, to strip bark, to scratch.
- taebai
- Sabatier to plunder, to strip someone of his belongings, to rob, to rifle, to pillage.
- tanea
- Sabatier motiki tanean te:... to strip sash off vanquished in competition, to degrade.
- tanara
- Sabatier tatanara, tanatanara: to strip off bedizenment, to undo, to unwind fishing net wound around one.
- unaenae
- Sabatier unaenaea to strip,... fleece,... ransack, to make clean sweep, to scrape up everything, to despoil totally, to leave nothing behind (ex. fish and small fry).
- bubai
- Sabatier to take land from an assassin in compensation for his crime (formerly), to take out, to pull out, to remove objects from their place, to undress, to strip, to rob, to plunder.