bokaboka

Bingham

bókaboka

n. mud.
a fish, the.

a. muddy.

Sabatier

bokaboka

n. 1. mud, mire, slime, slush.

a. muddy, slimy, sloshy.

vc. kabokaboka: to make...

vt. bokaboka, wibokaboka: to put mud or black soil around taro plants.

n. 2. a fish, unicorn fish.

bokaboka¹

n. Nei Bokaboka: larva of dragon fly.

Bokaboka

n. Nei Bokaboka n nei: Lady Echo, the echo.

bokaboka²

n. (bukabuka?) edible seaweed (in Beru).

Goo & Banner

bókaboka

sn. Naso valmingi (ll).

n. unicorn fish (sm).

Luomala

bokaboka

sn. Naso valmingi (acanturidae).

n. surgeonfish, unicornfish.

Topics: Fish, Plants and trees, 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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