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taboo

15 Kiribati words

• tabu
  • Bingham taboo, forbidden, sacred.
• tabutarawa
  • Bingham observing taboos.
• kamabua
  • Bingham to put a taboo on.
• tabuna
  • Bingham to forbid, to make taboo.
• tabutabu
  • Bingham the existence of many taboos.
• kangitabu
  • Bingham to eat what is tabooed to one.
• tabua
  • Bingham to set aside as taboo, to sanctify.
• otabu
  • Bingham something tabooed and not to be taken.
• kaburoro
  • Bingham the brain, a thing reserved or tabooed.
• taburoroko
  • Bingham persisting to old age in observing one's taboos.
• karuotaria
  • Bingham to release one by incantation from a taboo umposed.
• ota
  • Bingham coconut leaf tied around a tree whose fruit has been tabooed.
• rabu
  • Bingham to engage in tying coconut leaves around fruit-trees tabooed.
• riribukia
  • Bingham to reject as food the outer half of a coconut when it has been tabooed.
• ewea
  • Bingham perform an incantation on one who has broken his taboo, or who wishes an indulgence.