tabe
Bingham
tábe
va. busy, engaged, employed.
n. the state of being occupied.
tábe
a. some.
Sabatier
tabe1
rad. of tabeka and forming many compound words:
ex.
- tabeatibu: to carry stones.
- tabe-kai: to carry sticks, etc.
tabe2
va. to be occupied, busy, busy about, busy working.
n. te tabe n nano: worry, preoccupation.
vc. ka-tabea: to occupy, to give work to, to employ...
freq. v katabetabea: to give much...
ex.
- katabea te nano: to preoccupy.
- katabea te ika: to go fishing.