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struggle

18 Kiribati words

• iakiaki
  • Bingham struggleing and kicking as a child.
  • Bingham struggle to free one's self from the grasp of another.
  • Sabatier to struggle, to be agitated, to stamp feet, to roll on the ground, to work feverishly.
• iwai
  • Bingham struggle, squirm.
  • Sabatier to struggle, to try to escape.
• ibabu
  • Sabatier to struggle, to be agitated, to strive (with hollow noise); (babu).
• ibeki
  • Bingham struggle violently.
  • Sabatier ibekibeki to stamp feet, to scuffle, to struggle.
• kainimaki
  • Bingham to struggle to get free.
• keiaki
  • Sabatier to try, to strive, to struggle.
• ibekibeki
  • Bingham frequentative of ibeki struggle.
• ibeku
  • Sabatier ibekekibeki: to struggle, to stamp.
• rebutata
  • Sabatier to be agitated, to struggle, to act hastily.
• kiriwewe
  • Sabatier to struggle (with feet, hands, like a devil in Holy Water).
• un
  • Sabatier meaning struggle, force, violence, ardour (root foundation).
• takaerere
  • Bingham to flop about, to thrash about or struggle as a crying child.
• tiribaibai
  • Sabatier tiribaibaia: to struggle while flapping wings, tail (fish).
• takarema
  • Sabatier to flutter, to move about, to frisk about, to flutter, to struggle.
• takarebutata
  • Sabatier to stir, to struggle, to agitate with precipitation, noisily, continually.
• rangarangatau
  • Sabatier to run here and there, to struggle, to be busy, to be agitated, precipitated, unbalanced.
• inimaki
  • Sabatier to turn around, to struggle, to bound, to start up, to jump, to dash, to rush, to move abruptly.
• takaere
  • Sabatier takaerere. to cut, to hit, to strike out in all directions, to struggle with flapping tail as shark, eels, etc., when caught.