rabuna

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

rábuna

vt. to screen.

n. a screen.

rabuna

vt. raburabuna: to cover, to mask, to clothe, to shelter, to protect, to cover over.

fig. to forbid, to stifle, to hinder.

ex. E rabuna te takakaro: He forbade, hindered the game, the play.