suck
21 Kiribati words
- baronria
- Sabatier to suck, to chew.
- memerea
- Sabatier to suck..., to suck noisily.
- memeroa
- Sabatier to suck..., to suck noisily.
- nam
- Sabatier to smack lips, to taste, to suck. red. namnam: (to count).
- Sabatier nama, nanama: to taste to see..., to taste, to suck.
- imimita
- Bingham suck the teeth.
- memerake
- Sabatier (1) to suck up.
- mamma
- Bingham suck the breast.
- imita
- Bingham suck as the teeth.
- mengaroa
- Sabatier to suck with toothless gums.
- memeka
- Sabatier to suck in, to suck with noise.
- mbamba
- Sabatier mbambaea. to aspirate, to suck.
- memere
- Bingham suck in noiseily as juice while chewing.
- nenge
- Sabatier nengenenge, nengenengea: to suck, to lick.
- ung
- Bingham chew and eat or suck pandanus fruit or bunia.
- ungira
- Bingham chew and eat or suck as pandanus fruit or bunia.
- temeteme
- Bingham to make a sucking noise with the teeth when eating.
- namta
- Sabatier namta, nanamta: to sip, to taste, to suck, to inhale.
- namtea
- Sabatier sup. of namta: to suck, to inhale, to sip noisily, ravenously.
- kamba
- Sabatier kamba, kambamba. to inhale, to draw in, to suck (smoke of tobacco).
- temeka
- Bingham to sip, to take in with the lips, to suck as a tobacco pipe for its smoke, to smack.
- meromero
- Sabatier idem. meroa, memeroa, meremeroa: to taste, to sip, to suck up, to drink with a little noise (N.).