bari

Bingham

b'æ/ri

a. smooth and level as land.

Sabatier

bari

a. slightly curved, puffed out, unequal.

v. kabari, kabari ranga, kabari wae: to sit with legs crossed.

ex.

kabari n uea: idem.
te wae n rongo: idem.

vt. kabaria.

bari¹

n. a fish (like large sardine), kingfish.

Goo & Banner

bari

sn. Caranx melampygus (ll).

n. kingfish (sm).

Luomala

bari

sn. Caranx melampyges (Carangidae).

n. jack.

Topics: Fish, House and village, Animal and plant names (Goo & Banner), Ethnobotany (Luomala)

Sources

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.
Goo & Banner: Fannie C. C. Goo & Albert H. Banner, A Preliminary Compilation of Gilbertese Animal and Plant Names (1963).
Luomala: Katharine Luomala, Ethnobotany of the Gilbert Islands (1953). Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 213.

From A Combined Kiribati-English Dictionary, compiled by Stephen Trussel and Gordon W. Groves (University of Hawaiʻi, 1978), revised and edited by Stephen Trussel (2003), as published on trussel.com. Original page (archived).

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bari

Bingham

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Goo & Banner

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