mabe

mabe (plural mabes)

1. A mabe pearl.

• BAME, Bame, Beam, ambe, beam, bema

mabe

1. to chew (in order to soften, especially betel)

• momo

• Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007) “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, number 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmabe/ [ˈma.β̞e]
• Rhymes: -abe
• Syllabification: ma‧be

mabe m (plural mabes)

1. Iriartella setigera, a South American palm tree.