boub

• bou, bouk

Compare Gilbertese baibure (“species of dragonfly”).

• (phonetics) IPA^(key): [pˠoupˠ]
• (phonemic) IPA^(key): /pˠewipˠ/
• Bender phonemes: {bȩwib}

boub (construct boubin) (alienable, rare, poetic, literary)

1. dragonfly (any insect of the suborder Epiprocta)

   Ļadik eo nejū ej kaboub.

   My son is catching dragonflies.

boub (causative kōboub) (distributive, intransitive)

1. to have many dragonflies

   Ebboubub ļo̧k āniin jān āneeņ.

   This island has more dragonflies than that island.

• Abo, Takaji; Bender Byron W.; Capelle, Alfred; DeBrum, Tony (2009–), “boub”, in Marshallese–English Online Dictionary‎^[1]
• Nik Willson (2014), Naan‎^[2], Majuro, Marshall Islands, page 953