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Babai and food crops

Giant swamp taro and other cultivated food plants.

108 Kiribati words

• aning rumored.
• anrairake species of taro.
• anti mainiku a species of taro.
• antouman babai.
• atimainiku babai.
• atinikatoka babai suckers.
• ba ni babai 1. taro leaves.
• baba foolish, destitute of reason, wanting in umderstanding, weak in…
• babai to approach cautiously for the purpose of stealing.
• babaia papaw, fruit of... <papaya>. (ENG).
• babue a species of taro.
• baki assembled outside for want of room.
• baku the top or leafy part of babai or taro cut close to the root for…
• bakuraewa handsome, beautiful.
• bamai a fish, the.
• banana speaking angrily.
• barobaro to comb as the surf.
• barobaroba the leaf proper of babai, not including the stem or stalk.
• batana to manure taro with withered leaves.
• batinawa the pit of the stomach.
• bekei a preparation of taro and coconut.
• boang small sized taro, cut in four pieces only.
• boratia to ruthlessly destroy all the babai in a patch as in time of war.
• bukimakana producing good babai as a rua.
• bumaniman odorous as the arm pits, or as an eitei [bird].
• butababa deteriorated as babai after being long dug.
• erieri scooping up as fish.
• ibunroro preparee>ing ibunroro.
• ibunroroa prepare babai with coconut milk and molasses.
• ibuota a species of taro.
• ika fish of any kind.
• ikaraoi spe babai.
• imanra babai.
• io bird.
• iokanai babai.
• itamaria a dish of taro mixed with molasses.
• kabe name of a plant like babai.
• kabi keel of canoe, boat, ship, the bottom of a container (N.), back row…
• kabirai the perfumed oil from taro leaves.
• kabotoa to strive to surpass through pride.
• kabwebwe a slice or portion of babai for planting to obtain suckers.
• kabwibwi babai preserved by drying.
• kabwibwia to preserve babai by drying.
• kaewa having a light shade amid dark ones.
• kaikui a variety of babai.
• kaimai having light-colored leaves.
• kainikabo a spade for cutting babai roots.
• kaiura easily angered, havein red leaves.
• kamanono a small depression or pit.
• kamarawa a place deeper than an adjoining place.
• kamaruarua abounding in depressions, or pits or valleys.
• kaoimatoa to allow babai more time for growth before digging it ut.
• kaoioia to allow babai more time in which to grow.
• karikiriki a new village, a new babai pit.
• katai a babai patch or pit just excavated.
• kateibabai to engage in planting babai.
• katutu the root of young babai.
• kaunibabai a competition for size of taro.
• kinono a pit, the center of a whirlpool.
• kinonorio very deep, as a pit.
• kirimaruarua full of holes, crevices, pits, trenches.
• koirikintari a shell used for scraping babai.
• kunei n ikaraoi a young ikaraoi (taro).
• kuneinikaraoi a species of babai, the ikaraoi in its earlier growth.
• mai used imperatively, come here.
• maimai abounding in breadfruit of jackfruit trees.
• manam preparation of babai and coconut.
• manawa pit of the stomach.
• mane aba ni babai a skirt the colour of taro leaves.
• manono give annoyance, give trouble.
• marua deep depression, pit, valley.
• maruarua abounding in depressions or pits.
• moaaine hen.
• motinwae species of breadfruit tree (Altilis Fosb).
• moto bird.
• mwemweara mummy apple, papaw, <papaya>, fruit of... (ENG).
• nang well filled with babai plants, as a patch.
• nenebo to hold land taken by a relative of a murdered man as a recompense.
• niba a post hole.
• nibauea a nice pit, a large pit dug for plants.
• ninganingan a babai plant in its very early growth.
• noau a pit with no babai in it, a marua.
• nrairaki a variety of babai.
• ngan having side sprouts as babai.
• oimatoa babai well matured.
• onga soft or soggy as watery babai.
• raibane a smaller mat used in completing.
• rang crazy, insane, lascivious, blighted or abnormal in growth.
• rikia the residence of one's ancestors.
• rikiantababa a variety of babai.
• rikiatababa (1) a species of taro with shoots all around.
• rourou to dig up babai.
• rua to change, to alter, to succeed, to take the place of.
• ruanibenu a small pit or cistern in which to soften coconut fiber.
• ruarua abounding in babai pits.
• ruru to tremble.
• taewa a longitudinal slice of babai, a portion of a pan bunch.
• tai ikawai (1) spathe too developed to be used for toddy.
• tangana a preparation of babai and coconut.
• taororo a variety of taro.
• timami babai or squid, roasted on the coals.
• timamia to roast babai or squid on the coals.
• tiriobora to damage a plant or babai patch by falling upon it, as the branch of…
• tuamwi a dish made from taro and coconut.
• tutu to trickle,.
• ubunimai unripe breadfruit.
• unikaai a species of taro.
• unikai babai.