riri

riri

1. complaint; grumbling

Cognate of Hawaiian lili, Rarotongan riri, Tahitian riri and Samoan lili; maybe related to Tongan lili “to be angry; to boil, to cook in boiling water” and Fijian riri “to boil” both from Proto-Oceanic *ririq from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *diqdiq “to boil water” (compare with Malay didih)^[1] (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

riri

1. to be angry, to rage
2. to attack

riri

1. anger, rage, wrath
2. fight, quarrel, battle

• riringa

• Williams, Herbert William (1917), “riri”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 399
• “riri” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

Borrowed from Tok Pisin nil, from English nail.

riri

1. nail (metal fastener)

• Firchow, Irwin; Firchow, Jacqueline; Akoitai, David (1973), Vocabulary of Rotokas - Pidgin - English‎^[1], Ukarumpa: Summer Institute of Linguistics, page 91

riri

1. unhappy, discontented

• Lemaître, Yves (1995), Lexique du tahitien contemporain [Current Tahitian lexicon]‎^[2] (in French), Paris: Éditions de l'Orstom, →ISBN
• “riri” in Dictionnaire en ligne Tahitien/Français (Online Tahitian–French Dictionary), by the Tahitian Academy.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɾi.ɾi]

riri

1. (transitive) to kick

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001), A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

riri

1. Pheidole, a type of ants.

• Lizot, Jacques (2004), Diccionario enciclopédico de la lengua yãnomãmɨ‎^[3] (in Spanish), Vicariato apostólico de Puerto Ayacucho, →ISBN