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baki

Bingham

b'áki

va. assembled outside for want of room.

bæ/ki

a. hungry.
n. hunger.

baáki

n. a park (ENG).
n. pan leaves for enriching a babai patch.
va. gone ashore, as a boar on the beach.

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baki

n. accumulation, heap, pile, crowd, conglomeration, mob.
a. accumulated, piled up, grouped, crammed.
vt. kabaka (te koraki): to accumulate, to pile up, to group.

baki1

n. debris, driftwood, many things heaped or scattered.
ex.
  • te baki ni mange: heap of rubbish lying across.
  • te baki ni kuia: tree trunks stranded.
  • e baki te wa: the canoe is stranded crosswise.
  • te baki, te aobaki: fig. an abandoned rejected person.
vc. kabaakia:.

baki2

n. pandanus leaves tied in long bundles made into coils and put around taro plants.

baki3

n. hunger, leanness, thinness.
vt. baki, babaki, bakibaki, aobaki, bakiruru, bakiroro, kibakibaki: to be hungry, to be famished,... starved,... thin,... slim,... hollow,... empty.
vc. kabaki: to cause hunger, make hungry.
kabaka: idem. to make thin.
n. te kabaki: time of famine.

Topics: Pandanus, Babai and food crops

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