ikabata

Bingham

íkabáta

n. fish.

i:kabáta

va. abounding in ikabata.

Sabatier

ikabata

n. a black fish, kind of inai.

Goo & Banner

íkabáta

sn. Scarus niger (y).

n. parrotfish (sm).

ikabata¹

sn. Scarus sordidus (ll).

n. female parrotfish (ll).

Luomala

ikabata

sn. Scarus niger.
Scarus sordidus.

n. parrotfish.

Topics: Fish, Colours, 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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