kaakaru² scrape the skin off something.; scrape the thorns off a pandanus leaf

• • scrape the skin off something.; scrape the thorns off a pandanus leaf
  • • removal

  • • Example 2579:
      

      Kaakaru o muu are nahue.

      Scrape the skin off of the taros so that we can cook them.

      Source: SiiSen 01W 146

    • Example 2580:
      

      Bean kosi vakavara a paka taovu, ean paa kaakaru e bono pesupaava, bean varoava bata nom eve.

      After you have cut off the leaves of the taovu pandanus, you remove the thorns with a coconut husk and put them into the sun.

      Source: Sii 41W 039

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• See also:
  • kosi² cut leaves
  • nahu² cook something in a pot or saucepan (with something)
  • kara aisi a thorny vine
  • karu scrape off something, remove thorns of something