There will be four windows on each side opening down to the floor-- Sa-bĕlah ampat jandela panjang ter-buka sampei di bendul.
Measurement The Kayans use two principal standards of length, namely, the BUKA and the BUHAK.
The half BUKA is also in general use, especially in measuring rattans cut for sale, the required length of which is two and a half BUKA.
Buka is of course the Boga of Polo; Alinak is his Soldan.
Jack” Read watched the ship and aircraft movements of the Japanese in and around Buka in the north.
Read reported a dozen or so Japanese transports assembling atBuka before their trip to Guadalcanal, with enough troops loaded on board to take the island back.
She also acquired Bougainville and Buka Islands in the Solomon archipelago.
The Solomon Islands are now divided politically between Germany and Britain, Germany having annexed the large island of Bougainville and the smaller Bukaon the north, and Great Britain the remainder.
Anyone visiting Zululand might ask a Zulu to relate to them "Ubiqili Buka Bongoza," and it would be told them with great glee.
But this abode of the slain does not seem to be a happy land or Valhalla; the natives are even more afraid of it than of the Village of Ghosts (buka kure).
Hagen tells us, a belief in the existence of the soul after death is proved by their assertion that after death the soul (gunung) goes to buka kure, which seems to mean the village of ghosts.
The ghosts of those who have perished in battle do not go to the Village of Ghosts (buka kure); they repair to another place called bopa kure.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "buka" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
