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buri

Bingham

búri

vi. to ooze out on pressure, to discharge as a boil.
n. pus, white pus.

Sabatier

buri

n. pus, sanies, soft matter, juice, pus and blood from an abscess.
a. buri, buriburi: purulent.
vc. kabura: to cause pus, juice, etc., to come out, to extract...
ex. kabura te kao: to milk a cow.

buri1

pref. of many compound words.
root. of burita.

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