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kabubu

Bingham

kábubu

a. ashamed.

kaábubu

n. a fish, the.

kábubu

n. pulverized, preserved pandanus fruit.
a. dull, blunt, not sharp.

Sabatier

kabubu

n. a small fish with long beak.
sn. Hermiranphe.

kabubu1

n. preserved food made from pandanus fruit, a drink in which this food is mixed in water.
vt. kabubuteia: to make this mixture more watery, <dilute>.
karirakaia: to make it thicker, or more solid.

kabubu2

a. blunt, dull, not cutting.
n. bluntness, dullness.
vt. kabubua: to blunt, to make dull.

kabubu3

a. disappointed, deceived, taken in.
vt. kabubua: to deceive, to discourage, to disappoint.

Goo & Banner

kabubu

sn. Hemirhamphus marginatus.
n. small needlefish (ll,sm).

kabubu1

sn. Hyporhamphus dussumieri.
n. small needlefish (ll,sm).

kabubu2

sn. Hyporhamphus laticeps.
n. small needlefish (ll,sm).

Luomala

kabubu

sn. Hemiramphidae.
n. (some) half-beaks.

Topics: Fish, Pandanus, Food and cooking, Feelings and character, Animal and plant names (Goo & Banner), Ethnobotany (Luomala)

Words that link here

  • a him, her, it, a suffix pronoun following an active transitive verb,…
  • kakabubu frequentative of kabubu.
  • kawaiwai pandanus fruit preserved in a powdered form, a variety of kabubu.
  • ntabungabunga a fish, the.
  • rotu the spider shell-fish.
  • tangananikabo a mixture of kabubu, coconut and water.