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ihi

Pukui-Elbert Haw to Eng,

vt., To strip, peel, as bark or fruit; to tear off, remove.

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ʻihi

Pukui-Elbert Haw to Eng,

1. vs., Sacred, holy, majestic, dignified; treated with reverence or respect.

  • Related:
    • hōʻihi
      • a. To treat thus; to hallow.
      • b. Tapa or pandanus fitted into a hoop and placed on the head of an attendant (kahu), serving as a holder for a food container from which the chief or favorite child was served, a means of bestowing high honor.

2. n., Wood sorrels (Oxalis 🌐, all species), perennial weedy herbs, creeping or not, and bearing cloverlike leaves and yellow, white, red, or pink bell-shaped flowers. The plants have a pleasant sour taste due to oxalic acid.

3. See hue wai ʻihi.

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ihi

Māmaka Kaiao Haw to Eng,

hamani, To peel, as an orange or taro.

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I-HI,

Andrews Haw to Eng,

v. To peel off the bark from a stick. Kin. 30:37.

2. To peel; to flay the skin from an animal; e ihi i ka ai, to take the skin from food (kalo or potatoes); e ihi i ka ili o ka manini, to peel the skin from the manini (a species of kalo); e hoopohole, e maihi; ua ihi ka la, ua wela ka pahoehoe, the sun is peeled off, i. e., the clouds, the smooth rocks are hot; ua ihi ke kapu o ke alii, the kapu is taken off. LIT. Peeled off.

I-HI

Andrews Haw to Eng,

s. The name of a plant growing on the mountains, the root, used in native medicines, slightly cathartic; also,

2. A plant like the pig-sorrel, which is called ihi makole.

I-HI

Andrews Haw to Eng,

adj. Sacred; hallowed. Hal.72:19. Generally applied to high chiefs.

ihi

/ ĭ'-hĭ / Parker Haw to Eng,

1. adj., Sacred; hallowed.

2. adj., Majestic; dignified.

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ihi

/ ĭ'-hĭ / Parker Haw to Eng,

1. n., A species of plant (Portulaca oleracea) widely used as medicine.

2. n., The common purslane.

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Ihi (ī'-hi), n.

/ ī'-hi / Parker Haw to Eng,

A crown-like headpiece marking distinctive rank. Same as ĭ'-hi.

ihi

/ ĭ'-hi / Parker Haw to Eng,

1. v., To strip off the bark or skin of; to bark, flay, or decorticate; to peel.

2. v., To tear or strip off; to remove. Ua ihi ka la, ua wela ke pahoehoe. Syn: Maihi.

3. v., To cover or wrap the head, as in the ceremony of covering the head of a chief or an idol.

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