urua

Bingham

úrua

vt. destroy, break.

n. upper part of the waist just below the ribs.

Sabatier

urua

vt. ururua: to destroy, to sack, to plunder, to break, to smash.

fig. violate, transgress (laws, contracts, vows).

ex. kai uruaki, kakaiuruaki: fragile, breakable, easily broken.

urua¹

n. a fish, king fish.

urua²

n. name of a star.

Goo & Banner

urua

sn. family Carangidae.

n. very large kingfish (ll).

Luomala

urua

sn. Caranx melampyges (carangidae).

n. large jack.

Topics: Fish, Weather and sky, Family and people, 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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