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Coconut

The coconut palm and everything made from it.

379 Kiribati words

• aeae crawl.
• ai flint lock musket.
• ai(i) Birgus latro.
• aieta coconut at a certain stage of ripeness (the kernel is hard but the…
• akota nut (HEB).
• amakai coconut in its sixth stage of growth.
• amoimoto coconut a little riper than moimoto, nearly aieta.
• aneane gather coconut from a tree.
• aneka do well.
• anni 1. shade of coconut trees.
• ao and.
• aoka deny or refuse a request (used only with tai aoka).
• aong scraped coconut mixed with other food.
• aongia mix scraped coconut with other food for a relish.
• ari coconut spathe.
• aribuni short as a coconut spathe.
• arinanti coconut ari or bud which fails to set or mature.
• arinoko slim or narrow as a coconut spathe or eyebrow.
• aroaroka have or possess coconut trees growing on another person's land.
• ata know.
• atiniba coconut shell bottle.
• ato thatch of coconut leaf.
• atoato filling coconut shell bottles.
• atunangoba thick end of coconut leaf (end joined to trunk).
• awa boil.
• ba because, for, that, as.
• ba raerae coconut tree with leaf just beginning to foliate.
• baba foolish, destitute of reason, wanting in umderstanding, weak in…
• baenata a collection of stones used in entrapping fish <fsg>.
• bakabane second stage of a coconut leaf.
• bakabwi to engage in tying coconuts in bunches of ten each.
• bakabwia to tie coconuts in bunches of ten each.
• bakamaieta a dish consisting of grated coconut and toddy (karewe).
• bakanimtao boiled, scraped, coconut after having been squeezed in a strainer:…
• bakanimtaoa to prepare boiled coconut oil.
• bakanutao ordinary coconut oil.
• bamakoro sap stopped, unproductive, sterile for a time.
• bangu a fallen young coconut, eaten by a rat.
• bani a branch <frond - gwg> or leaf of coconut.
• banikimaimai a young coconut leaf, leaflets not yet separated.
• bara loose, untied, dismissed, dispersed.
• barano coconut leaf or dead wood, rotten and wet, not burning well.
• baro the forelock cropped or banged above the etes <hair>.
• baru a fish, the.
• barubaru to resound as a large coconut when being cracked ipen.
• batabata very dark skinned.
• batete intoxicated.
• bebe to stagger.
• bekei a preparation of taro and coconut.
• ben a general term for a ripe coconut.
• beniben abounding in ripe coconut.
• benikai ripe coconut with very hard kernel.
• benikangkang a very relishable ripe coconut.
• benimai nearly fully ripe as a coconut.
• benroro a ben whose husk is dry and about to fall.
• bentiki a ripe coconut whose kernel is unusually hard.
• benu a coconut husk.
• bibinoka to engage in twisting coconut fiber.
• bikoko a young coconut with well developed kernel, but soft, a moimoto.
• binebine to engage in searching for coconut oil perfumes.
• binobino a coconut shell bottle for coconut molasses.
• binoka to twist with the fingers as strands.
• bo ben to gather or put coconuts together.
• boimanoa odour of roasted nut. frying oil.
• boimanua having the smell of a burning coconut kernel.
• boimoka the odour of decaying coconut.
• boka decayed as ripe coconut.
• bokakana carding of coconut fibre (benu).
• bokakua rotten, decayed, as a coconut.
• bokatoto decomposed, rotten (coconut and fruit).
• bomaneka to cut notches on coconut trunk to facilitate climbing.
• bonubonu a small gelatinous marine animal, the.
• bonubonua to scent coconut oil with bonubonu.
• borai to assemble or gather coconut leaves.
• boriki to cut open germinated coconuts.
• borin to gather dry coconut leaves (rin) to be used as torches or thatch,…
• boua to build a new canoe.
• buariari fragrant as very fresh coconut sap.
• bukimaere a coconut almost ripe, the fifth stage.
• bukiri part of a coconut.
• bukirurunga to resound, as falling coconut.
• bungiba a coconut tree whose fronds tend to droop down toward the ground.
• bunia the sweet husked coconut. the green husk is often chewed as sugar…
• buniababai a sweet husked coconut, specially relishable.
• bunibun to engage in pulling or gathering ripe coconut s.
• bunna a young coconut leaf when used in sorcery.
• bunniba a piece of coconut wood or uri about one foot and a half long, used…
• bunra to take ripe coconut from the tree.
• buro n ika sap flowing from a crevice cut in a tree.
• burongorongo having the scent of old coconut oil.
• buronikika in the condition of a coconut tree or babai whose growth is stunted.
• buru blue (ENG).
• bwenabwena to engage in splitting coconut logs by adzing.
• eke coconut of later stage than takataka.
• ene very young coconut tree.
• enene abounding in very young coconut trees.
• era stripped of coconuts.
• ewanin husk of the coconut.
• ianriringa scented oil made from scraped coconut exposed to the sun and boiled.
• iaokiri mixture of kabubu and coconut milk.
• ibea break open as a coconut, break up as bait.
• ibeua break a coconut into halfves.
• ibu coconut shell bottle.
• ibunikatio coconut shell for water not tied to a second.
• ibunroroa prepare babai with coconut milk and molasses.
• ibuntabonari small coconut shell for use at the beginning of cutting the spathe.
• ikawai ewewe 1. one who has outlived those of his age, very old.
• ikawaiwewe long since adult.
• iko seed of the pan.
• ikoben collection of coconuts.
• inai coconut leaf mat.
• iningao carrying a coconut in the teeth while descending.
• iningaoa carry a coconut by the teeth in descending from the tree.
• kaamwia to let a coconut tree mature all its fruit.
• kaauau kabubu mixed with scraped coconut.
• kabaka to cause one to hunger.
• kaben a captain (ENG).
• kabena to mix coconut molasses with coconut milk strained.
• kabenga to make wide.
• kabetanga to bruise by jamming.
• kabeti a drink consisting of water, toddy and kabubu mixed together.
• kaboka scraped coconut left to rot in a container for the purpose of…
• kaborere to mix water with sugar, toddy, kamaimai, etc.
• kaburiburi coconut oil prepared for anointing.
• kai ni katarin a copra knife.
• kai ni korokorom an instrument used for husking nuts.
• kai ni man a flag post, semaphore, coconuts hung upside down inside house to…
• kaiai a coconut tree in the third stage.
• kaingunakoa to strip off all the coconut on a stem with the foot.
• kainiman very ripe coconuts strung up in a house.
• kairoa to light as a pipe,.
• kakaubaro thin fleshed (coconut).
• kakauben thick fleshed (coconut).
• kakekekeke a riri not oiled, used as a bathing suit.
• kakoko the young straight coconut leaf, not yet opened.
• kamaimai coconut molasses.
• kamakewea to eat ungrated coconut.
• kamaki to engage in lessening the flame of a torch.
• kamakorokoro coconut oil extracted by boiling the liquid from pressed freshly…
• kamakorokoroa to extract coconut oil by boiling the liquid from pressed freshly…
• kamanging intoxicating, having kamanging in store or on hand.
• kamatene to swing on a hanging coconut leaf until one is mara. (S.).
• kamoimotoa to wait for a coconut to become a moimoto.
• kanara about to die as a coconut tree.
• kaneinea to shake a coconut in order to know whether it still contains water.
• kani coconut wood.
• kanni wood, timber, trunk, lath of coconut tree.
• kanoua a coconut fiber cord of two strands.
• kaobotata to tread on a coconut frond so as permanently to bend it down.
• kaokioki to get drunk on kaokioki.
• kaonanti to engage in stealing bunches of coconut by sliding them down a long…
• karaebari the half of a frond of a young coconut tree over the shoulder for…
• karaia to make flexible, as a coconut leaf by wilting it under the sun.
• karaoi a young coconut, the onibua well oiled for purposes of incantation.
• karaunoa to pluck a single coconut from a bunch gently.
• kare moi to knock down ripe coconuts by throwing something at them, to throw…
• kareberebe to pop.
• karebwerebwe syrup of toddy, molasses.
• karekereke not slippery, as a dry coconut truck when climbed.
• karemoi to engage in gathering coconuts by pelting.
• karewe the fresh sap from the coconut bud.
• karongo stale, as coconut which has been long in a scraped condition.
• karuoruo fresh sap of the coconut tree, fresh karewe.
• kataetae to engage in tying coconuts together in twos.
• katang to signalize by loud whistling.
• kataraia to strip off a coconut leaflet for a little space.
• katarin to engage in removing the kernel of a coconut.
• katawanou to recut the coconut spathe at noon, in order to increase the flow of…
• katete to engage in scalding karewe against fermentation.
• katoka to put or place up, to make victorious.
• katua to give a wide berth to, to make of medium size.
• kauaea to let a coconut tree alone until full of nuts, to cultivate in order…
• kauben rich in coconuts.
• kauka to eat or drink one article without a mixture.
• kaukea to completely scrape out a coconut, to do thoroughly, to complete.
• kaukenana to grate a coconut, to finish kernel completely.
• kaurebaku to engage in kaurebaku.
• kautuai a coconut scraper.
• kautuaia to scrape a coconut.
• kawi a long coconut-shell bottle used in incantations.
• kiaro a stick uniting the outrigger to a canoe.
• kienene leaf of coconut tree, all in one piece, not split.
• kinati the name of a bone of the leg above the koroniwae according to Kaure,.
• kingking a slim pan nut.
• koa an insect.
• koi not fully grown.
• koikoi a bivalvular shell, used in scraping out food.
• koikoiniben curdled coconut sap.
• koiriki a coconut scraper.
• kokoa to scrape a coconut kernel with a koikoi.
• kora coconut fiber cord.
• koran a colon (ENG).
• koriri the extreme portion of a coconut leaf used in incantation.
• koro a stick for husking coconut, a javelin.
• koro ni katei a pointed stick for husking coconuts (stuck in the ground).
• koroba partially stranded, as fish or canoe in shoal water.
• korobai to cut the fastenings of coconuts tied together.
• korobaia to cut the fastenings of coconuts tied together.
• korobanni to cut coconut leaves.
• korom to take the husk off coconut with a stake called a koro.
• koromaka scented boiled coconut oil.
• koromaneka to cut steps in a coconut tree.
• koronikateia to husk a coconut on a sharp pointed stick set in the ground.
• kuaroun a basket made of coconut leaves from which the midribs are rejected.
• kumete thin in flesh after a spell of sickness.
• kunroro the exterior husk of the bunia.
• kuriba coconuts, bunch of coconuts or other plants pulled with leaves, etc.…
• maea rope of coconut husk fiber.
• maemaeki picking to pieces as a coconut husk.
• maen capable of being bowed or bent.
• mai used imperatively, come here.
• maibinnana piece of coconut shell.
• makoro portion, section,.
• man ni karewe species of cantharis (found around toddy).
• manam preparation of babai and coconut.
• maneka footstepp.
• manekeang riri having a greenish color.
• mangu bunia in which the kernel has not yet developed.
• manguing very soft kernel of coconut.
• manibwebwe outer part of a pan leaf at its base, chaff.
• manua fish.
• mao large bush.
• marai kernel of a coconut in its soft state.
• marewe young coconut leaf partly opened, fresh growth of leaves.
• maru superimposed, piled up, thick, bushy.
• mata eye, face.
• matababai coconut tree with a close hard grain.
• mataburo a fresh face.
• matari coconut in its fortth stage.
• matarikiriki spoken of a coconut - shell cup with broken edges.
• matarirebwe spoken of a young coconut a little more mature than matari.
• memea stained yellow by the juice of a green coconut husk.
• moantari very fresh toddy or karewe.
• moi ripe coconut ready to drop (in the ninth stage).
• moimoto coconut well developed, but soft (in the fifth stage).
• momoka decayed or rotten as a coconut.
• mwintari the last toddy juice to drip, to be at its last, the last...
• namta taste of a liquid or soft food.
• nana cocoon.
• nananikanei large coconut shell cup for receiving boiled oil.
• nananimae half coconut shell for holding oil for besmearing a wreath for the…
• nangoba base of coconut leaf <frond>.
• nate a nut (ENG).
• nawa to rest another by taking his place.
• nea ashamed, mortifyied.
• neabung branch hanging broken by storm, nuts, fruit fallen by accident.
• ni a coconut tree.
• nibaeai a young coconut tree bearing fruit.
• nikaburaerae a nut of tree brought by current (like chestnut).
• nikaro to engage in cooking squid on the coals.
• nikoi a young coconut in the second stage.
• nimanonginong having fine strands as a coconut fibre fish line, finely twisted.
• nimoibung a young coconut (in the second of twelve stages).
• nimoimoi a very small young coconut (first stage).
• nin nin-ni-boua: half of husk of coconut. (N.) ewa n in.
• nini lasting as a fragrance.
• ninibao curved up. warped, as a coconut husk.
• ninikabongira coconut tree producing nuts resembling bunia.
• ninikabongire a species of nut.
• ninimarena a ligature of the spathe.
• niningaun a coconut tree with big number of fruit.
• nira to roll up.
• nira n riku a special way to tie spathe.
• niro black coconut.
• noa te noa: a coconut containing corrupted premature water.
• noko midrib of side leaves of coconut palm.
• nono a perquisite or recompense in the form of a coconut given to the…
• ngaun ten used in counting bong, ririki, ritoro, inaki, atao, wa, and…
• ngenge to beg for food by one's looks, to be covetous of food.
• ngutu a movable sight of a gun.
• obaki rough binding of coconut fronds for torches, the torch itself.
• obakia bind roughly a coconut frond for a torch.
• oioi large circumference as a coconut tree, or the bulb root of the babai.
• okai house for storing ripe coconuts.
• okaia store ripe coconuts in a house.
• onibua young coconut in the third stage.
• orin work of binding dry leaves for torches.
• oroben to make copra (split coconuts).
• ota light (opp of darkness).
• otaota preparation of food, scraped coconut mixed with coconut molasses.
• rabirabi wide laterally as a coconut shell bottle.
• rabu to engage in tying coconut leaves around fruit-trees tabooed.
• rabutekawanikai a coconut leaf charm, or fetish, of a certain style.
• raeba to engage in stripping off coconut leaflets for obtaining the ba.
• raebaea to strip a coconut tree of more or less of its leaves.
• ran fresh water, sap, juice.
• ranimauna an old coconut without milk, in the 10th stage.
• ranni the water in a ripe coconut.
• ranniben milk made from scraped coconut and water.
• ranran juicy, full of sap.
• rara blood, rust, the menses.
• riba n amwi fruit (of bunch) or coconut deformed by pressure.
• ribaeai young coconut tree (bigger than uto).
• ribanamwi a coconut which is small because crowded by the adjoining nuts.
• riki again, in addition, following an adjective it gives the force of the…
• rin to wane as the moon.
• riribuki the half of a ripe coconut opposite the eyes.
• ririkewe last piece of kernel in coconut shell.
• ritang the innermost part of the husk of the bunia not chewed, the leaflets…
• riti a wick.
• ritinga cooked to cinders.
• roatana to make a raft of ripe coconuts or firewood for the purpose of towing…
• roro the spathe of a coconut tree when open, the open spathe which once…
• ru doubled as a coconut.
• ruo to descend, to come or go down.
• ruonako abundant, great, much.
• tabanura unbound as the base of the ari.
• tabanure spathe of coconut with twigs pointed.
• taberanikai kabubu mixed with coconut.
• tabo n ritinga (1) wisp of smouldering husk, charcoal.
• tabonari a small coconut-shell bottle used in receiving the early sap from a…
• tabotari a spathe giving abundant sap.
• taboua long lance of coconut wood, pointed at both ends (ua).
• tae stripped, extracted, drawn out, defeated.
• taeben to tie coconuts in two by strips of husk semidetached.
• taebenu to take benu (young coconut husk) out of soaking pits <take out>.
• taeraea to strip a coconut tree of all the young coconuts suitable for food.
• taeroro to pull dried spathes off tree.
• taetango (1) to take tango off coconut.
• tai ataei (1) childhood, infancy, youth, to be at the age of..., in the time…
• tai eta coconut at stage of kernel just beginning to form.
• tai ikawai (1) spathe too developed to be used for toddy.
• tai toki mature coconut, spathe at the stage of giving less and less juice,…
• taiben a dish of kabubu and coconut.
• taitoki too mature to yield much karewe.
• takataka copra, the dried kernel of the coconut.
• tangana a preparation of babai and coconut.
• tangananikabo a mixture of kabubu, coconut and water.
• tanginikimoa a coconut not quite fully ripe.
• tango the part of a coconut to which the stem is attached.
• taoakai to engage in extracting coconut oil in a press.
• taoakaia to subject ripe coconuts to the process of extracting oil by pressure.
• taobenu to put benu (young coconut husks) to soak in pit covered with stones.
• tara to bail out a well, to wipe with a leaf or towel.
• taranikakoko a charmed necklace of coconut leaf.
• tari salt water, salt, a sea.
• taribo boiled to a medium thickness as coconut molasses.
• tarikeke cut somewhat obliquely.
• tarota to perform incantations on a weapon.
• tatari giving much coconut sap.
• taume the stem of a cluster of coconuts.
• tauno a coconut, either a moimoto or onibua, which falls to the ground…
• tawere pale.
• te a always followed by a numeral suffix, ai,ua,un,man,nga,kai,kora or a…
• tengaun ten, one hundred coconuts, really ten bunches of ten each.
• tete to siss as hot iron when wet.
• ti we, always followed by a predicate.
• tikuru (Eng.) a screw, screw nut.
• tinima to broil coconut, to fry.
• toara not making an even number,.
• toto of little volume as the voice.
• tounene turned upward as the topmost coconut in a bunch.
• tubwere pulp of coconut boiled down into pap.
• uaba carrying coconut oil.
• uabarariki slightly curved towards the end (coconut, etc.).
• uakangkang a delicious coconut.
• uananti blighted or poorly developed coconut.
• uaran tobacco ooze or juice in a pipe-stem.
• uatari (1) to have, give, or carry juice, liquid.
• ubu snout, central part of the face.
• ububu soft and tender as a young sprout.
• ue n ari flowers of coconut spathe.
• uenari coconut blossom.
• ukiang dust of decayed coconut trunk.
• ukinana eating out the kernel of a coconut with the teeth, gnaw.
• unaririki stripping off old leafves of coconut trees.
• unaririkia strip a coconut tree of its leaves.
• uniba mock-fight by children using coconut leaf midribs as spears.
• urebaku the opening of spathe to extract juice.
• urokau head of coconut palm.
• urukau core of a coconut tree at its upper end.
• uto sprouted coconut very recently planted, a very young coconut tree.
• wae a leg, a foot.
• waea to sew, to pierce, to stick.
• waka n ni coconut roots.
• wakanni a root of the coconut tree.
• wanimarawa to free a foundered canoe of water.
• wanin to engage in mending a hole in a mat.
• winiwete a tattoo on the thighs.