| | stubborn  |
| baibo | ~ obstinate, stubborn, contumacious, headstrong, foolish. |
| bontolo | ~ clumsy, lumpy, large, awkward, stubborn, or inelegant |
| boribory | ~ obstinate ~ stubborn |
| fokafoka | ~ rather foolish and angry, imprudent, stubborn. |
| fangaoka | ~ perverse, stubborn, unmanageable, intractable |
| fo vato | ~ very stubborn. |
| hafa fiaina | ~ [fiaina (aina), life.] Eccentric, peculiar, obstinate, stubborn, headstrong. |
| maditra | ~ stubborn ~ obstinate, pertinacious ~ disobedient |
| mafy hatoka | ~ stiff-necked, stubborn |
| mialakaforo | ~ to be desperate on account of abject poverty; to be stubborn or inflexible, as a criminal who has lost all hope. |
