taben adjective English. Characteristic of very many, of s.t.: thick, as hair, grass, a crowd. Example sentence: Subanen. Sug binaalan nami, metaben gupia sigbet dun, mabu' ndi' na nami megaga bunglayay. English. The weeds are very thick in our field. Probably we won't be able to get it all weeded. Example sentence: Subanen. Su gilemunan ku, mabu' ndi'u megaga mbuas, pu' metaben gupia sigbet dun, lamug pa pelum telaid. English. I probably won't be able to clean the whole area I'm weeding, because the weeds in it are very thick, and some of them are sharp grasses. Antonym. liang; niwatak