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bure

Bingham

búre

va. passed over, given away, teansferred.
n. name of a shell, the white cowrie.
n. an error, a mistake, a sin, a transgression.
vi. to err, to make a mistake, to blunder, to sin, to transgress, do wrong.
aux. v like should at the beginning of a sentence or clause of supposition, on the supposition that.

Sabatier

bure

n. a white shell, egg cowry.
sn. Cauris, collipara).
ex. species -- bure-bangaki, bure-tauti, buretewetewe...
see itua ni bure, raiti ni bure, namata ni bure.
vt. burena: to decorate the maneaba with the bure, to fix bure to the oka of the maneaba, to bedeck, to adorn oneself with...

bure1

n. a fault, error, defect, slip, blunder, sin, crime, offence, wrong.
ex.
  • te tia bure: the culprit, the sinner, the prisoner, the accused, the criminal.
  • te bure ae kamamate, ae rawawata: mortal sin, grievous sin.
  • te bure ae bebete; ae bakekete:
  • venial sin.
  • (bureu, burem, burena) au bure, am bure, ana bure.
a. bure, burebure: culpable, wrong, defective, faulty, criminal, etc.
v. bure, bubure, burebure: to commit a sin, to commit a crime, to do a wrong, etc., to be wrong, to make a mistake, to err, to transgress the law, to sin, etc.
ex.
  • kaotibure: confession, telling one's sins.
  • kabara bure: absolution, to forgive, to beg pardon.
  • tiri bure: to correct mistakes (in books).
  • taua te bure: arrest the criminal.
  • ana te bure: correction, punishment.
  • N na ana am bure: I will punish you.
  • bubure: falling often into sin or making many mistakes.
vt. burena: to take the responsibility of..., to assume the culpability of..., to take upon oneself a fault.
ex. N na burena am bure: I will take your fault on me.
vc. kaburea, kabureburea: to charge, to incriminate, to condemn, to convict, to punish, to judge guilty, faulty, to alienate, to sacrifice, to abandon, to give away.
ex.
  • e kaburea abana nakoiu: he willed his land to me.
  • e kaburea maiuna: he committed suicide.

Goo & Banner

bure

sn. Amphiperas ovum (i).
n. egg cowry (ja).
note. not found on Onotoa; imported from Abemama for ornaments (i).

Luomala

bure

sn. Amphipera ovum (gastropod).
n. snail.

Topics: Shells and sea creatures, House and village, Colours, Animal and plant names (Goo & Banner), Ethnobotany (Luomala)

Words that link here

  • bubure frequentative of bure.
  • burebure speaking with a slip of the tongue.
  • burena a shell.
  • buretata frequentative of bure.
  • kaburea to charge with sin, to lead into sin, to pass over to one, to give,…
  • kanabure a thin round shell bead.
  • namata ni bure a string of bure shells, a bracelet of these shells worn as armlet.