babakanikawai

Bingham: Hiram Bingham, A Gilbertese-English Dictionary (1908, 1953). American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.
Sabatier: Ernest Sabatier, M.S.C., Dictionnaire Gilbertin-Français (1954), translated by Sr. M. Oliva as Gilbertese-English Dictionary (1971). South Pacific Commission Publications Bureau.

Bingham

babákanikáwai

a. extortionate, rascally, vicious.

babakanikawai

n. injustice, fraud, cheating.

ex. te tia babakanikawai: a cheat.

a. unjust.

v. to defraud, to cheat, etc.

vt. babakanikawaia: to cheat, to defraud, to trick, to sponge on...