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baroakina

Sabatier

baroakina

vt. to spill on, to pour on, to invade, to overrun, to crowd into.

ex. a baroakina te maneaba: they crowded into the maneaba.

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uekana idem. in fig.
una hit a target repeatedly.

Sources

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.

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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Content 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. Each entry credits the dictionaries it combines.