vaamin Humphead Wrasse

• • Humphead Wrasse
  • • animals, fishes

  Scientific Name

  Cheilinus undulatus ; Labridae

  • • Example 8032:
      

      Vaamin. A iana vai a beera sana. A iana vai a paraa to beera nana, are paa dao e bona vaamin. Be beera, ore paa nao vo namana, to tei nana a iana bona. Beori rahi maa bari, ore paa ma kaku bari en vaan. A kavara na aba ore paa an bari.

      Humphead Wrasse. This fish is very big. This fish is a wrasse that is grown-up, so that we call it vaamin. When it is grown up, it goes to the deep ocean, where this fish stays. When they catch it, they butcher it in the village. Everybody will eat it.

      Source: Sii 42W 096-103

Related entries

• See also:
  • rahi¹ pull something; catch something (with a string)
  • kaku¹ butcher an animal
  • paraa kind of wrasse