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aoraki

Bingham

áoraki

a. sick.
n. sickness, disease, sick person.

Sabatier

aoraki

n. sickness.
ex.
  • aoraku, aorakim: my... your sickness.
  • te aoraki: sick person, patient.
  • au aoraki: my patient.
fig. excrement.
a. sick, unwell.
n. te buti n aoraki: epidemic (te aoraki ae buti).
ex.
  • te aoraki ae ewe: contagious sickness.
  • te aoraki buaka: consumption, TB. (te kangenge).
  • te bai n aoraki: medicine.
  • te o n aoraki: hospital.
  • te tia katoki aoraki, taokita: doctor.
a. nimaoraki: sickly.
aoaoraki: sickly.
niba n aoraki: having several sicknesses.
ka-aoraki: unhealthy, unwholesome, poisonous.
vt. ka-aoraki: to make sick, to injure health.

Topics: Health and illness