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Food and cooking

Dishes, preserved foods, cooking and eating.

310 Kiribati words

• a him, her, it, a suffix pronoun following an active transitive verb,…
• aeka take as food from the fire.
• aerona prepare for a fire in an oven.
• amarake food.
• amata not sufficiently cooked, rare.
• amataroro very slightly cooked.
• aoa test food as to the degree of cooking.
• aomata person, especially a Gilbertese.
• aong scraped coconut mixed with other food.
• aongia mix scraped coconut with other food for a relish.
• areare sufficient in quantity, as food to be partaken of.
• ariro core of a boil.
• awa boil.
• awaro coarse food prepared from the stem of the pandanus fruit in times of…
• awawa frequentative of awa boil.
• ba because, for, that, as.
• babai to approach cautiously for the purpose of stealing.
• babarua to crave, to greatly relish.
• baia a coarse kind of food, tough and stringy.
• bairaraoi well furnished.
• bakabaka frequentative of baka: fully ripe, as the pandanus fruit.
• 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.
• bakanroronga to feed away from home.
• bakarawa food distributed to donors in compensation.
• bakatitau a certain dish, prepared from kabubu and grated coconut mixed.
• bakaukau (foreign word, Hawaii?) private business.
• bakawai a variety of food, a delicacy made with taro.
• baketi a meeting for exchange, a feast.
• bararaia to regard food sulkily.
• bareum a cook house.
• batai a case made of pandanus leaf in which to bake a fish.
• bauna ration of food (weighed, measured).
• bei a pile of stones on a flat collected as a snare for fish.
• beka to engage in scraping pandanus fruit with a fixed or a stationary…
• beki a pig (ENG).
• beroroa to swarm over food as ants.
• betin pigeon (ENG).
• betinoma tough food removed from the mouth after having been chewed.
• bongan to engage in arranging tabataba for an all night's bake.
• bu ni kai voracious, gluttonous, bolting (food).
• bua lost, missing.
• bua n amarake intemperance in eating, gluttony.
• bua n rongo glutton, gobbler, big eater (like someone who is famished).
• buabeka gluttonous.
• buangang deteriorated as karababa by too much exposure to the air.
• buaoaomata spoken of food not thoroughly cooked.
• buariki eating abstemiously.
• buatoro a preparation of food made from taro and toddy.
• bubura big, large, large round.
• bunenea having the odor of fish while cooking.
• bunewe a fire in a native oven nearly reduced to coals and ready for service.
• burangenge somewhat covetous of food.
• bure n ioki decision about a meal in common.
• burea to choose or select suitable food for a guest.
• burinauau the bloody pus of a boil or abscess.
• butangatanga offensive in odor, as decaying food.
• butikeke much softened with water as food, smeared with much oil.
• butirere to beg for food.
• butona to consume food sparingly or without waste.
• bwenaten food, or a drift-log, to be divided into three parts.
• ewe jump.
• ewenako jump off, run about as a child ceasing to creep.
• iangatoa repast in company where food is exchanged.
• ibe packed hard as kabubu [preserved pandanus fruit] or earth.
• ibunroro preparee>ing ibunroro.
• ienikuri preparee>ing food or a canoe in haste for a departure.
• ienikuria prepare food or a canoe in haste for a journey.
• ika fish of any kind.
• ikao picking bones close.
• ikatoatoa feast in which food is exchanged.
• intibua condition of one who is intibua.
• ioki make exchange, esp of food in a maneaba.
• iria pan leaf for packing kabubu.
• itamaria a dish of taro mixed with molasses.
• itikurere to vibrate, to quiver (ex. with fear), to tremble (as bait before a…
• kaauau kabubu mixed with scraped coconut.
• kaba copper (ENG).
• kabaka to cause one to hunger.
• kaben a captain (ENG).
• kaboa to purchase, to buy, to recompense, to cause to meet.
• kabubu ashamed.
• kabuki a kind of fishing.
• kabunnai to make additions to a story.
• kabwibwi babai preserved by drying.
• kaewenako to engage in challenging from a distance.
• kai mai easily or quickly cooked.
• kai ni marewe specially chosen food or drink put aside.
• kaiai a coconut tree in the third stage.
• kaikai a meal, a civilized meal.
• kaikewi to eat, to partake of food.
• kaimai having light-colored leaves.
• kaingainga to be slow in preparing food and so to make impatient the person to…
• kainimarewe food or drink set aside for a special time.
• kainimarewea to set aside as food.
• kaira to lead, to conduct, to guide, to cause to accompany.
• kakibakibaki causing a constant craving for food.
• kamabiao causing sufficiency of food.
• kamaeke to engage in eating fragments of karababa.
• kamakanakana makana name of great famine in former times, when corpses lay around without…
• kamakewe to engage in eating ungrated or unscraped coconut kernel.
• kamakiro to engage in eating raw pandanus fruit.
• kamamua to freshen salt food, to add more karewe to a drink of karewe with…
• kamaneinei thin molasses, not cooked enough, liquid.
• kamangao to eat without dieting, to eat unprepared food.
• kamari making plenteous as food.
• kamarikea to refresh with food.
• kamatam a portion of food.
• kamatamua to feed, to provide with food.
• kamatiratira to make soft by much cooking.
• kamatuao a meal before sleep, or for sleep; for.
• kamoriau to provide food for a prospective son or daughter-in-law.
• kana to eat, to consume.
• kanabuaka a meal taken in the open far from home, picoconutic.
• kanangora food set aside for a man or woman who is in love.
• kanauti to eat greedily, to seize food hastily.
• kanawawaki causing distress, as too much food.
• kangi tabu to eat food forbidden to person or clan.
• kangitabu to eat what is tabooed to one.
• kangkanta frequentative of kanta.
• kanoa ni mangko 1. (contents of cup) attention or care given to a person with the…
• kanokunoku causing sullenness especially about food.
• kantongitong causing faintness form want of food or sickness.
• kanuai satisfying as food of good quality.
• kanuaia to satisfy one with food.
• kaokao to engage in wiping, as dishes.
• kaoti to appear, to come in sight.
• karababa dried pandanus fruit.
• karababaua to flatten out as soft food.
• karara to caw as a bird, to engage in chanting, before the performance of an…
• karauaka to satisfy with food.
• karebe a social meal among fishermen on the evening before the fishing…
• karebwe a hasty meal at night by group of fishermen before starting out.
• karetabo a certain distribution or exchange of food in which those who are…
• karona to massage a boil.
• karubenano a hasty meal before some work or departure.
• kataberai a person, thing or food preferred.
• katae to engage in hospitality.
• katete to engage in scalding karewe against fermentation.
• kati a gun, a musket.
• katimoimoi to make balls.
• katio a coconut-shell bottle carried by a loop in two holes, a carrying to…
• katiobuki to fall.
• katoro to act on the bowels.
• katorotiba to engage in distributing or dividing portions of food for one's…
• kauka to eat or drink one article without a mixture.
• kaukea to completely scrape out a coconut, to do thoroughly, to complete.
• kaukeuke to engage in searching for food, as a hen with her brood.
• kauna to anger, to vex, to provoke, to set on, to persistently refuse a…
• kauntabo to meet in rivalry as the inhabitants of two villages when feasting…
• kawaiwai pandanus fruit preserved in a powdered form, a variety of kabubu.
• kibakibaki often craving food.
• kibera to stir, as food.
• kimangu improvident, by eating more than is necessary.
• kimarimari abounding in food.
• kiriongong faint from want of food.
• kiritata to servilely beg as one's food.
• kitoko a small shrub.
• koki a cook (ENG).
• koring a portion of food reserved for another.
• korobun to choke with food, to be without appetite from pain.
• korobung to choke with food, to be without appetite.
• korokoro pulverized pandanus fruit mixed with water and formed into a loaf.
• koromaka scented boiled coconut oil.
• korotaura a share, remains of ceremonial meal.
• kuka cook (ENG).
• kuo a coconut-shell cup for receiving boiled anointing oil before putting…
• kuro (S.) cooking pot, saucepan.
• maebuebu filled as a house with plenty of food to be prepared for a feast.
• mai used imperatively, come here.
• maibiua broken in two, as a dish or coconut shell.
• maibua broken in two as a dish or coconut shell.
• maibunia half cooked, under done.
• maioraora underdonee.
• makerukeru make a crunching sound in eating, or a nibbling or gnawing sound as a…
• maki shriveled and dryied up as a leaf.
• mama ashamed, abashed.
• mamatam frequentative of matam eat.
• manainai poisoned by eating m'anai.
• manam preparation of babai and coconut.
• manau partially dried as fish, beginning to dry as fish.
• mangainrang eat voraciously.
• mannebaeba not skillful in providing food, through indolence.
• maototo frequentative of maoto.
• marau somewhat soft.
• marengau dissatisfied with food, insufficient, parsimonious.
• marike refreshed with food.
• maro sink, founder, go down as food.
• maroa lonesome.
• maroro converse, engage in conversation.
• mata eye, face.
• mata ni ngenge look of covetousness of food.
• matam partake of food, to eat.
• matamtam make a noise with the lips in eating.
• matamu to eat.
• matiratira thoroughly cooked, or cooked soft as a pan nut or babai.
• matuao food prepared to be eaten by a child in the night.
• mau dry.
• mau amarake mad about food, greedy.
• mauamarake greedy, eager to obtain an undue portion of food.
• maukanna keep eating food while one is preparing it.
• maungenge covetous of food.
• mika thoroughly cooked, scalded.
• mweaka food eaten near the close of a voyage, no longer held in reserve.
• mwi n ai second batch cooked in the same oven.
• namaonga swallow a portion of the food which is being masticated for a little…
• namnam eat up the remnant of soft or liquid food as molasses with the finger.
• nana cocoon.
• nano n amarake having a fondness for food.
• narinari hard as a boil in the earlier stage.
• nenebo to hold land taken by a relative of a murdered man as a recompense.
• neneiriko not well or sufficiently cooked as fish.
• nibaenene to be provident for the wants of a child.
• nibarabara to engage in filling small baskets with fish to be given to one's…
• nibararai covetous of, desireous of obtaining.
• nikarearea any especially relishable food.
• nikaro to engage in cooking squid on the coals.
• nikira to engage in taking food to guests.
• nnanna te nanna. baby talk for food.
• ntangorengore faint from want of food.
• ntaribariba poisoned by eating certain fish.
• ntinebu heaviness (after eating), dropsy.
• ntongitong faint from want of food, or in sickness.
• ngabingabi a mat used as a spread or container for food.
• nganga to engage in measuring fathoms.
• ngangarake the roof of the mouth.
• ngangau unable to restrain one's desire, eating without waiting for others.
• ngaro the gum.
• ngenge to beg for food by one's looks, to be covetous of food.
• ngengetaia to beg much for food by one's looks.
• ngka give me (used in the imperative).
• ora shallow, shoal, not deep, low tide.
• oraora eating fish raw.
• otaota preparation of food, scraped coconut mixed with coconut molasses.
• raibane a smaller mat used in completing.
• ranea faint, or languishing through want of food.
• rarauaki satisfied, having had enough food.
• rarawekaia to secure or procure food for one's self and family.
• rauaki satisfied, having had enough food.
• rauakina content, satisfied (food, amusement, etc.).
• raurau a plate, a platter.
• rauraua to place food on a plate or platter.
• rawe kai to seek, to provide food (product of trees).
• rawea to take, to lay hold of, to seize, to grab, procure.
• rawekai to be busy procuring food.
• rawerawe to be busy procuring food.
• rekenibai food for guests.
• rieta to go by land.
• ringoungou to hanker after as food set aside against a time of need.
• ringoungoua to persistently long for, as food set aside against time of need.
• riribukia to reject as food the outer half of a coconut when it has been…
• ritinga cooked to cinders.
• roro the spathe of a coconut tree when open, the open spathe which once…
• ruamakana soft, flattening by its own weight, as moist tangauri.
• ruamatoa retaining its form in a loaf, as tangauri, with little moistening.
• taba the blossom of the pan.
• tabaninia to eat food in common.
• tabekanatu a posthumous incantation, a fetish.
• tabonibaimaiu skilled in procuring food.
• taebekebeke stripped of one's food by much entertaining.
• taiben a dish of kabubu and coconut.
• takareare (food, etc.). becoming rare, getting scarce, nearly exhausted, almost…
• taneiairoro to partake of food unceremoniously.
• tanna a relish, a sauce, an appetizer.
• tanotano covered with sand, as a garment.
• tarai amarake to provide, to look for food.
• tarawa Cook Island, discovered by Gilbert and Marshall, 20th June, 1788.…
• tarawawa without appetite.
• taribariba poisoning or indigestion from food, upset by certain food.
• taribo boiled to a medium thickness as coconut molasses.
• tarika a small portion of food set apart before beginning to eat, as a sort…
• tarou to throw up food gently as an infant, to puke. 'the infant, mewling…
• tauantaboa to offer food or other thing as an offering to a deity.
• taubuki the top, the ridge.
• taumate judging correctly of oven heat.
• taurongo search for marine food in a place remote, or occasionally visited.
• taurongoa to seek marine food.
• teboka to water as a plant, to wash, to bathe, to baptize.
• tebomata social meal (formerly) with magical ablutions.
• tete to siss as hot iron when wet.
• tianaki lunch, food for the journey.
• tikurere a food or drink especially desired.
• tima a food specially relished.
• timamwi food (any kind) wrapped and cooked on coals.
• tinnetea to put back in oven, to re heat in order to preserve.
• tintin to roast, to broil.
• titi cheese (ENG).
• toka a chief, a large land-holder.
• toma to taste of, to sip.
• tua to graze, to glance, to ride over a wave as an outrigger.
• tuamwi a dish made from taro and coconut.
• tubwere pulp of coconut boiled down into pap.
• tuntun to stop short, straight on.
• tutu to trickle,.
• uakana those men who, those boys who.
• uarokoa present a chief with food.
• uati swollen as a boil, but not discharging.
• ukinana eating out the kernel of a coconut with the teeth, gnaw.
• umum bakee>ing in an earth-oven.
• ung chew and eat or suck pandanus fruit or bunia.
• ungira chew and eat or suck as pandanus fruit or bunia.
• unra angry.
• urakaraka general term for small fish.
• waitekea to fork food, to lift food with a fork.
• waneinei too watery, mixed as food with too much water.
• wanimatang to eat fish (just caught) in privacy.
• wiamarake a small knife to cut food, tobacco, etc.
• wikangkang having a voracious appetite.
• witoka to speak rapidly.