tiringa

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.

Bingham

tíringa

vt. to beat, to kill.

tiringa

vt. to hit, to beat, to kill, to immolate, to massacre, to assassinate.

fig. to reprimand, to scold, to lecture, to give a beating to, to cane, to belt.

idiom. tiringa te ai: extinguish the fire.