karabakau

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.

Bingham

karæ/bakau

vi. to conspire, to plot together, to converse together.

n. conspiracy, plot.

karabakau

see a. kakarabakau.

ex. banga ni karabakau: trying to be smart, clever, know all.

vt. banga ni karabakaua: to boast of one's cleverness or of that of another, to converse.

n. conversation, plot.