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luluigai
noun hurricane
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noun cave
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noun caves where the Sarivanua (mythical people) hide
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noun 1. New moon, 2. darkness without moonlight
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noun moonlight
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noun Full moon: good time to go diving in dark period, sky is dark (malingo) until about 8 pm, when the full moon appears.
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Vula meto / daulato matagu
noun waning gibbous moon (dark moon when the girls are afraid to go outside alone at night because men might grab hold of them and harass them in the dark.)
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Vula mwado mwa rani / maramturani
noun waning crescent moon (the moon remains from the morning throughout the day until evening)
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Vula ngoro rani
noun waxing gibbous moon (moon is round throughout the day)
Example: See also "mwa ngal matan bageo"
bookmarkVula ngoro rani
noun full moon
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Talking Dictionary produced by Presley Dovo, James Ure, Gregory Plunkett, K. David Harrison, and Jeremy Fahringer, with Calvin Heiman and Neal Kelso (2020)
Raga botanical names collected by Philemon Ala, Raga language contributors are credited within the dictionary entries.
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