kabaki
Bingham
kabæ/ki
va. causing hunger.
n. a cause of hunger, a place with scarcity of food.
Sabatier
Kabaki
n. name of a man in ancient times.
ex.
- ana ma Kabaki: a reddish place (tari bo, tari-ura) in the west where the current gathered flotsam and wreckage.
- arokani Kabaki, te arabungea, te kai ni beti: floating timber.
- te kai ae aitoa: wood, trees half-submerged and hardly visible.
- te kai ae aimauna: wood or trees, tree trunks submerged and only visible at times among eddies.
- ana man Kabaki, Nei Karia, and Nei Karokoa: names for white phaeton which indicates by its high or low flight the distance of land.