tababa

Bingham

tábaba

n. a species of shark, the.

tabaábaa

va. fully armed.

va. unkempt, bushy and curly as a head of hair.
abounding in leaves.

Sabatier

tababa

n. a man-eating shark. tiger shark.

sn. Carcharodon carchavuas.

v. katababa: to fish for...

tababa¹

from. ba leaf or from ababaki (perhaps).

n. wide spreading branches, leaves <leaf> (of trees, plants), fuzzy (hair).

ex. atutababa: spread out, far reaching branches, bushes overrunning, encroaching, etc.

see bakurakura, tabaruarua.

ex. e tabababa n taetae: speaking much about many topics.

vc. katababaea, kakata...: to make..., to ruffle, to bristle, to frizz, to frizzle, etc.

sup. superlative of taba: going in all directions <diverging (diverge)?>.

Goo & Banner

tababa

n. tiger shark (ll).

Luomala

tababa

sn. Galeocerdo cuvieri (Charcharhinidae).

n. requiem shark.

Topics: Fish, 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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