tabun
Bingham
tábun
a. this word is used only after tengaun (10), or 100 or 1000, etc, to indicate that the speaker means somewhat over ten or ten and more,etc,.
n. units, used in counting units, as when we say, units, tens, hundreds, etc,.
Sabatier
tabun
n. surplus, excess, over and above, left over, units less than ten.
ex. uabwi tabun: over twenty.
a. tabun, tatabun: more than, over, more than enough.
ex. e koro tabun: more than complete, over and above, superfluous.
n. e tatabun: he is left over, superfluous, no wife for him.
vc. katabun, katabuna: to leave some over, to count, to indicate the surplus or the number of units over the tens.
Topics: Numbers and counting