rabakau
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ræ/bakau
a. skillful, dextrous, adept, knowing and ready.
n. skill, ability to perceive and perform.
Sabatier
rabakau
n. science, knowledge, art, cleverness, aptitude, experience, instruction.
a. learned, clever, competent, apt, expert, skilful, ingenious.
ex. rabakau n rang: really clever, superior knowledge, exceptional aptitude.
v. kakarabakau (exchange of ideas) to confer, to converse.
ex. kakarabakaua: talk, act the clever, boast.
vt. karabakaua, kakarabakaua: to boast the knowledge of..., to brag about one's own learning.
rabakauakina: to converse about an affair, to treat about in conversation, to deliberate about.
rabakauakina: to converse about an affair, to treat about in conversation, to deliberate about.
ex. karabakauakina, kakarabakauakina...: under consideration, subject of...