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rang

Bingham

rang

a. crazy, insane, lascivious, blighted or abnormal in growth.
n. blighted babai, a crazy person, a very licentious person.

Sabatier

rang

na. adv. te rangi ni... ae rang ni, n rang: very, too much, excessively, extremely, foolishly.
ex.
  • e rang n nano: it is extremely deep.
  • e rangi ni bati: it is too much, it is a lot.

rang1

n. a taro which has lost its top.

rang2

n. a worthless man, without land, poor, destitute, despised, a servant, low class. as antiphrase: an important person.
ex. ti kaneweaba te rang aei: we are showing this person around.
na. ki n rang:
sup. a worthless person, a nobody, an idiot.
na. mata n rang, ubu n rang: idiotic.
vt. ka-ranga: to call, to treat as..., to insult, to flatter to excess.

Topics: Babai and food crops, House and village