bakaruru

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

bákaruru

a. hungry.

n. great and distressing hunger.

bakaruru

v. to be shaking from weakness, hunger, tiredness.

vt. kabakarurua: to make tremble, to shake.

syn. kabakirurua.