rarama
Fijian
Etymology
From Proto-Oceanic *ramaʀ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *damaʀ, from Proto-Austronesian *damaʀ (“tree resin used in torches”). Doublet of rama and ramarama.
Verb
rarama
Noun
rarama
Related terms
References
- Gatty, Ronald (2009) “rarama”, in Fijian-English Dictionary, Suva, Fiji: Ronald Gatty, →ISBN, page 204
- Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “ma-rama.a”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551-559