Topics

Health and illness

Sickness, injuries and remedies.

179 Kiribati words

• aoraki sick.
• aorakina experience, as a sickness, suffer with, be sick with.
• ariri travail.
• ba because, for, that, as.
• babubura a disease.
• bakamanang clothing in rags, an open sore.
• bakarere a neuralgic, darting pain.
• bakitaia poor, thin in flesh, lean.
• banabuabu swelling of abdomen, pot bellied.
• banaoraki a tumor in the abdomen.
• baniban the bosom.
• barere a fish, the.
• batata burnt by fire or sunscorched, scalded, blistered.
• batinawa the pit of the stomach.
• beko bogey man, goblin, ogre.
• bekobeko to cough.
• binakare a disease in the groin.
• biwa a beaver (ENG).
• bomata sore eyes.
• boriki to cut open germinated coconuts.
• bubura big, large, large round.
• bungibung long as the hair.
• e he, she, it.
• eba high, as the eaves of a house.
• i I, me.
• ie lewd heathen amusement.
• ikabakubakuba cure dried fish.
• ikeikentauti bloated by gluttony or sickness.
• ikoaki bruised, wounded, cut.
• inakiwarawara pale, sallow complexion, wan (of sickness).
• kaaoraki causing sickness, unhealthy.
• kabikoi moderate as pain in the abdomen.
• kabintia not excessive as pain in the lower abdomen.
• kai easily, without difficulty, soon, readily.
• kai n anti intermittent physical pain of unknown cause.
• kaingua to endure bravely as pain.
• kakaiaki very dangerous or severe, as a sickness.
• kakamataki frequentative of kamaraki.
• kamaraka to put in pain, to hurt.
• kamaraki causing pain, painful.
• kamataruana causing dimness of eyes as sickness.
• kamimioua to cause to writhe with pain.
• kamomori making sore or stiff as in the carrying of a heavy burden.
• kamomoria to make one sore as in the carrying of a heavy burden.
• kanakana a scab.
• kanakonako to move from one house to another as a sick man.
• kanamauna disappearing as a sickness or a wound, nearly healed.
• kanebu a dragon fly.
• kangenge consumption, sickness which produces loss of weight as TB.
• kantungaunga indisposed to effort as through illness or weariness.
• karikari to throb.
• kariteirake increasing in severity as sickness, increasing in ugly manners.
• karokai yaws.
• kaurokou imparting by contagion the disease called urukou.
• kea to utter an exclamation when hurt.
• kiaou a creeping vine.
• kiatoro a sickness.
• kinaka a diseases of the skin, the.
• kinakanimatang a foreign skin disease.
• kinakato a certain skin disease.
• kinatoa a skin disease.
• kinawa n anti a skin disease, black spots.
• kiri a dog.
• kone a coney (ENG).
• korakai exceedingly (preceded by ni).
• kun ni karawa a skin disease.
• kuneang to make enthusiastic, to give life to.
• kunikarawa a disease of the skin, the.
• kunikeaki a disease of the skin.
• kunikone a disease of the skin.
• kura a disease of the skin, a small pimple.
• maikeike sob.
• maina rake to become pale, to be pale.
• mainikai pale from pain.
• maka fear.
• makene abatee>ing as a sickness.
• makoko certain disease of the skin.
• makoro portion, section,.
• makoroua half portion.
• mamaraki frequentative of maraki in pain.
• mangeto covered with dirt and sores (kone).
• manikawa cat.
• mannei languidness.
• mao large bush.
• maraki in pain, suffering with pain.
• marawarawa sea sickness.
• mariari a painful feeling under a wound, scratch, burn, etc.
• maritata smarting.
• mata anoano troubled or dazzled sight.
• mataman suffering from the effect of bright sunlight on the eyes.
• matarearea disease of eyes, cataract.
• mataroro fainting through hunger or sickness.
• matarua matarua, e rua matana: to make a mistake about a thing or person…
• mataruana having the eyes dulled by sickness.
• matibutibu a skin disease.
• mimioua writhe with pain.
• momori sore as the muscles from exercise, or as an infant through rough…
• nanoanga sympathy.
• nanomara mental weakness, weakness of purpose.
• nanomaraki revengeful, painfully disturbed in mind.
• natitaro disease of mouth,... of tongue.
• nei fresh water pool or pond.
• neke pain of sting, wound, sting, prick.
• nibanaoraki sickly, always sick.
• nibunini small or young buni (fish).
• nikiari itching, as the tongue or the palm of the hand.
• nikunakuna covered with bruises, wounds.
• nimanan dyspeptic, having heart burn, sick with a fever.
• nimanana a fever.
• nimanu a certain disease of the skin.
• nimarakiraki of maraki.
• nimarawarawa seasick.
• niranuba a small cord wound around a fishhook and the takai as a protection.
• nnawawaki suffering from indigestion by overeating.
• nou a blister.
• nounanti swelling up as if pierced by nou's fin, but without apparent cause.
• nrara flowing, discharging in excess from the uterus.
• nta a reddish bivalvular shellfish, often used as a neck ornament.
• ntobatoba sick as a woman who has lately given birth.
• ntokotoko indisposed to effort from sickness or hunger or weariness.
• ntongitong faint from want of food, or in sickness.
• ngare banna the laugh of a sick person (skeleton).
• o stretch.
• rabu te kawa ni kai reservation, interdict under pain of curse.
• rabu te tauti idem. under menace of swelling up.
• raerae fatally wounded.
• rainging to throb, as with pain in the head.
• rangataki (1) to walk quickly, to hurry.
• raraibewa to writhe in pain.
• rarau to swoon from sickness or accident.
• rawata a wounded one.
• rereka bloated.
• rereta bloated.
• ribaba collected close together.
• ribeu having a tumor or swelling at the lower end of the spine.
• rinamate sickly, invalided.
• tabatibutibu covered with swellings, uneven, bumpy (ground, surface).
• tabunimate something set aside as for one's own use.
• tabuterang forbidden, sacred, untouchable, under pain of madness (or other curse…
• tabwerebwere experiencing the after effects of sickness.
• taerawata to impart courage to a man once wounded by incantation.
• taerere severe, acute as a pain.
• taewariri pain of hair being pulled.
• takaminomino to writhe in pain.
• tama a father.
• tanora a disease of the mouth allied to thrush.
• tantan a skin disease,.
• teke pierced, stabbed, struck, hit, surpassed.
• teme to breathe at the surface as fish.
• tena to bite.
• tibu swollen, bloated, puffed up.
• tiburake swelling up, getting swollen.
• tieua ornamental scarves <scarf> crossing over chest of dancers.
• tiewaewae a stinging pain.
• tine to hang.
• tiribubua stiff-jointedd at the knees.
• titibengaua fully ripe, as pandanus fruit.
• toba to engage in nursing or caring for a little child.
• tona syphilis.
• torara to groan in pain.
• tubatua to treat a pain with a poultice.
• u trap to catch eels <fishing>.
• uaraoi suitable size or fit.
• uati swollen as a boil, but not discharging.
• uke consumed as bait, consuming.
• uketati all consumed,.
• ureba disease of small boys.
• uringaba remember with affection or sorrow.
• urokou disease of the skin.
• uti ia swelling veins, varicose...
• utoa severe, as pain.
• utoawa severe as pain.
• utuaki aggravation of pain.
• waibua sore throat, having..., which irritates throat.
• waimata a disease of the eyes, the.
• waitaninga ear ache, any pain in ear.
• waiwai the furrowed edge of the reef.
• wioto wioto (S.) toothache, decayed teeth, sore gums;
• wira an aphthous disease.