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tangibuaka

Sabatier

tangibuaka

n. a disagreeable sound.

a. discordant, ill sounding, shocking.

ex. katangibuaka: to make, give..., sound, to play badly.

Words that link here

buaka war.
tangira to love, to desire, to cry for, to long for.

Sources

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.

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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Content 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. Each entry credits the dictionaries it combines.