| Part of Speech | verb, transitive |
| Phonetic Form | (i·)naᵐbe |
Example 1800:
U-nabe na moe iono.You mark the location of your (future) house.
Example 1807:
Basa i-abu i-ka i-vesu mijaka, i-nabe i-wene, i-ko pon Toplau ie da viñevi pon.There's a place where the mountain goes down and then up again? well, there's a (visible) spot there: they say that's where the women's secret house is found.
Example 1808:
Ini i-le i-la voko. I-lui i-la i-teli ne temaka na ini po i-tuku ini i-abu pon, i-nabe ñe voko.He took a stone, and carried it to the location where he had been going down (in the forest); he marked it with the stone.
| Sense Comment | abstr |
| (Part of) Synonym (for) |
Example 1809:
Dapa ka li-sube nuduro pe uña teliki li-la li-mini dapa ka li-ke li-da tanoe pe li-nabe li-mini dapa.They have committed an infraction: while our chiefs had granted them some land, they crossed the limits of that territory which had been defined for them.
| (Part of) Synonym (for) |
Example 942:
Ni-nabe jokoro lea iune ka kula.I measured the bamboo to be one fathom and a half.
| Encyclopedic Info | The family of the man pays a solemn visit to the parents of the future bride. The engagement ceremony takes the form of a gift, esp. of customary money (viko). Sometimes, a black rope (tero bworo) is given to the girl to wear on her wrist, as a sign of engagement. |
| (Part of) Synonym (for) |
Example 824:
Kupa pi-nabe emele iamela i-ka teve men’ iaba.We are betrothing your daughter to our son.
Example 1810:
Ka li-nabe keba ia mamote ba-kila keba tae.We're engaged [lit. they've ‘marked’ us] but we aren't married yet.