kama

Bingham

kaáma

n. the Southern cross.

kám'a

vt. to cook, especially to cook again, a second time.

Sabatier

kama

a. fish (Rainbow runner).

Kama

n. (myth.) name of person.

kama¹

n. a constellation, Southern Cross.

kama²

n. den of octopus, surrounded by stones gathered by itself and forming a ma.

kama³

vt. to cook.

ex. e kamaki te ika: the fish is being cooked. cooking.

see mai, kamaia.

Goo & Banner

kama

sn. Elagatis bipinnulatus (ll,y).

n. rainbow runner (sm).

Luomala

kama

ew. kamai.

sn. Elagatis bipinnulatus (Carangidae).

n. jack.

Topics: Fish, Shells and sea creatures, Weather and sky, Spirits, myth and belief, 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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