bat, especially flying fox (any bat of the family Pteropodidae) · boil in the armpit
köken: From Proto-Central-Pacific *beka, from Proto-Oceanic *bʷeka. The sense of “boil in the armpit” refers to the person affected holding up their arm like a bat’s wing.
aile: beka dina, beka lulu, beka ni bogi, kirikiribeka, lako vakabeka, macake na beka, samusamu beka, tuvani vaka bati ni beka, vuka vakabeka
E levu na beka era kana vuata me vaka na jaina.
Na beka e dau vakavuna na mosi levu.
aoekeim
biflaengfoks
cmn狐蝠
msnqërët
ropflain foks
Etimoloji
From lentävä koira (“flying fox”), by taking the first syllable of each original word.