bukibuki

Bingham

búkibuki

n. a sixty-gallon cask, a cask.

vi. to beat or throb as the heart.

Sabatier

bukibuki

n. a fish, coral fish.

ex. urua ni bukibuki: large species...

bukibuki¹

n. a barrel.

bukibuki²

n. beating, palpitation.

v. to beat, to palpitate (heart, etc.).

see buki.

bukibuki³

n. accusation, denunciation.

v. to accuse, to denounce.

ex. bukibuki ni kewe: false accusation, calumny, calumniation.

Goo & Banner

bukibuki

sn. Abudefduf septemfasciatus (ll).

n. coral fish; demoiselle fish (sm).

bukibuki¹

sn. Abudefduf sordidus (ll).

n. coral fish; demoiselle fish (sm).

bukibuki²

sn. Dascyllus trimaculatus (y).

n. demoiselle fish (sm).

Luomala

bukibuki

sn. Abudefduf septemfasciatus.
A. sordidus.
Dascyllus trimaculatus.

n. damselfish.

Topics: Fish, Shells and sea creatures, 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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