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Birds

Seabirds, shore birds and land birds.

104 Kiribati words

• aero comb of a fowl.
• akiaki Sterna sumatrana sumatrana.
• awaro coarse food prepared from the stem of the pandanus fruit in times of…
• babati the upper part of the thigh.
• bairakau a bird, the.
• bairuti a bird.
• baokan a falcon (ENG).
• batabata very dark skinned.
• batata burnt by fire or sunscorched, scalded, blistered.
• bokikokiko Conopoderas aequinoctialis.
• borauea a long feather of frigate bird used in game of kabane.
• bunatoi an egg.
• bwebwenimarawa Nesofregetta albigularis.
• bwetua to row.
• eitei bird.
• io bird.
• iran heron (ENG).
• kabanei a land bird, the.
• kabinwa albatross (?) <bird>.
• kai easily, without difficulty, soon, readily.
• kaite the kite (bird) (ENG).
• kaka fierce for battle.
• kakauaba frequentative of kauaba.
• kakibakiba to engage in making a bird to fly.
• kakibwkibea to treat a chicken to a scratching for food as a hen does.
• karabu a large sea bird, black with red beak.
• karakara a bird, the.
• karara to caw as a bird, to engage in chanting, before the performance of an…
• katabataba to call a bird for ensnaring.
• kauaba owning much land, rich in lands.
• keta to grunt, as when punched in the side.
• ketoa a bivalvular shell, the.
• keu a species of bird (Sooty Tern) which cries keu! keu!
• kewe to lie, to falsify.
• kiakia name of a bird.
• kibekibe to shovel, to scratch as fowls.
• kibeuri to scratch as fowls, to disarrange coarse gravel, as children at play.
• kibui a big sea bird (Brown Booby).
• kibwi a bird.
• kiokio a chicken somewhat grown.
• kiriri a bird.
• kitiba a bird,the,a variety of snipe or sand piper.
• kitibakua a bird, the.
• kitibakun a bird.
• kitibharano a bird.
• koko stingy.
• koroangutungutu phaeton <bird> with yellow beak and two long tail feathers of same…
• korobaro a bird, the.
• kota hit, as in the face with a ball.
• kun skin.
• kunei the young of the io.
• kura a disease of the skin, a small pimple.
• kuren the crane ( a bird) (ENG).
• makitaba bird.
• man from (it becomes mani before m, b, k).
• mangkiri bird.
• maningongo converse in a low voice.
• mannaba a bird (myth.).
• mannannang birds.
• matamea snare for taking fish or fowl.
• matawa large round as a man and so held with difficulty.
• matawanaba bird.
• matuku <bird> a species of crane, reef crane.
• moa first.
• moaaine hen.
• moaanti wild fowl.
• moamane rooster, cock.
• moanti wild, as a fowl.
• momoaine having many hens.
• monuakena a large bird (marked gannet, blue faced booby, common in Phoenix…
• moto bird.
• mouakena bird.
• naru the bird.
• nikunikun name of a bird.
• nna to lower.
• ngutu a movable sight of a gun.
• rarario to descend as a bird.
• rube a ruby (ENG).
• tabataba the edible part of the pandanus fruit.
• tabetabe to engage in carrying, to repeatedly carry.
• tairo a bird.
• take a duck (ENG).
• takirara white, very white, as a fowl.
• tangitang frequentative of tang.
• tangiuaoua Pterodroma alba.
• tangiuoua a bird, Phoenix petrel.
• tanguoua a bird, the.
• taobe a dove (ENG).
• tapuku Puffinus iherminieri dichrous.
• tarakura male frigate bird.
• tarangongo stern <bird>.
• tarangotu a bird (phaeton) with yellow beak and tail.
• tau a fish, the.
• taware snare in general, esp. for birds.
• tinebu clumsy in climbing.
• tiriwenei a bird, the.
• tokaneimoaaine inactive, inert, waiting (like fowl hatching eggs), timorous,…
• uauamoa frequentative of uamoa carrying fowls.
• uba mara a species of frigate bird (unplumed).
• ubaitoi a young frigate bird.
• ubaroro a species of frigate bird with black chest.
• uboi hoopoe [crested bird] (ENG).
• unounobaraki sit or stand with bowed head.
• wa a canoe.