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bane

Bingham

bæ/ne

va. finished, completed (haw: pau).

Sabatier

bane

red. babane.
n. banen te... banena: totality, total.
a. wholly, fully, exhausted, finished.
idiom. adv. bane, babane, kabane: all, entirely, integrally.
ex.
  • a bane n teirake: they all got up.
  • e bane n mka: it is all rotten.
adv. ni bane ni kabanea: totally, entirely, completely.
vt. kabanea, kakabanea, kababanea: to exhaust, to finish, to put together.
adv. ni kabanea, ni kabaneira, ni kabaneia, ni kabane: entirely, all of us, all of them, all, all things.
ex. ane kanam, kababanea: there is your food, finish it all up.
n. te kabane: full assembly, reunion which all must attend.
a. te kabane: the last.
vt. uabanena: to finish up, to exhaust.

bane1

n. Altar bread, hosts. (LAT).