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1. nvt., To cut longitudinally, shave, plane, comb, press, rub or stroke, as in a massage, with gentle pressure of the open palm of the hand; to scrape; to run the fingers along the side of a poi bowl so as to remove the poi clinging to the side; comb; scraper, as for olonā fiber.

• Related:
  • Hale kahi olonā (Laie 607), fiber-combing house.
  • hoʻokahi Caus/sim.
• References:
  • PPN tafi , but cf. Fijian tasi, to escrape.

2. numeral, One, only one, alone, lone, some (sometimes following the numeral classifiers ʻa- and ʻe-, or hoʻo-); also, besides, too, single; fellow worker, wife, companion; someone, someone else, a certain (less common than kekahi); unit.

• Examples:
  • ʻO au kahi e hele, I'm going too.
  • Naʻu kahi, give me some.
  • Pehea kahi o ʻolua? How is your companion (wife, spouse, colleague)?
  • Ka ʻāina o kahi (Kep. 159), someone else's land.
• Related:
  • hoʻokahi Caus/sim.; One, one only, alone; oneness, separately, single, singular, solitude, sole; together as a unit, at the same time; to make one, unite; to be similar; same; a, an.
    • Noho hoʻokahi, to live alone.
    • Hele hoʻokahi, to go alone.
    • E ʻimi kākou ma ka mea e ho ʻokahi ai ka mana ʻo ʻana, let us seek to unite our thoughts into one.
    • Hoʻokahi kō kāua noho pū ʻana, let us live together.
    • Hoʻokahi nō makua kāne, the same father.
    • Hoʻokahi nō ʻano, of similar nature; synonym, synonymous.
    • O ia lā hoʻokahi nō, that very day.
• References:
  • See ex., kāmau #1.
  • PPN taha [cf. Pawley 1966:54], PPN tasi .

3. loc. n., Place, location (contraction of ka wahi, not preceded by ke with this meaning); duty; where; ill case of, approximately, about. (For use of possessives o and a with kahi, see Gram. 8.6.)

• Examples:
  • Hele ma kahi ʻē! Go away! Get out!
  • Aia ka ʻai i kahi ʻē kahi i waiho ai (Kep. 57), the food is left elsewhere.
  • Mai kahi ʻē ā noho mai, from far away but yet sitting here [said rudely of intruders or uninvited guests].
  • ʻAuhea kahi e hele ai? Where's the place to go?
  • ʻAuhea kahi o Kupa mā? Where's the residence of Kupa and his family?
  • Ma kahi hoʻokahi, at the same place, at one place.
  • A koe ʻo kahi wale nō e paʻa ana i ka lima (For. 5:711), only the handle [of the spear] was left.
  • Ma kahi o ʻumi kapuaʻi, approximately ten feet.
  • Ka mea iāia kahi i paʻa ai kona komo ʻana, the one whose duty it was to register his entrance.
  • Ā ma kahi o ke komohewa, in case of trespassing.
• Related:
  • Kahi ʻē, elsewhere.
  • Ma kahi ʻē, ma kahi ʻoko ʻa, absent.

• Related:
  • Hunaola kahi. One cell, single cell; one-celled, single-celled.
• References:
  • See hoʻomana akua kahi, ʻūlau kahi.

1. v., To rub gently with the thumb and finger.

2. To comb, as the hair. NOTE— The idea is from the motion of rubbing, polishing, sawing, &c.

3. To cut; to shave, as the beard. 2 Sam. 10:4.

4. To cut, that is, to tear; to lacerate. Lunk. 8:7. See KAHE, to cut, &c. Mea kahi umiumi, a barber.

5. To cut, as the hair. Lunk. 16:17. From the old manner of sawing off the hair with bamboo knives.

6. To slit open, i. e., cut longitudinally; kahi i ka opu, kahe i ka omaka. See kahe. NOTE.—The feeble sound of e and i so much resemble each other that both orthographies are used, i.e., kahe and kahi, to cut, though the latter is preferable.

s., A place; some definite place spoken of or understood; it does not admit of the definite article; often SYN. with wahi. Kahi kuai, a market place, or simply a market; ma kahi e aku, at another place; kahi kakakaka o ko'u kina, the beaten place of my offense; kahi hoano, a holy place; a sanctuary. Nah. 3:28.

adj. and pron., Some; someone; consisting of a portion—used to express an indefinite quantity, number or place.

adv. and conj., Besides; as well; moreover; also: O ka ia kahi na ke akua; the fish also for the god.

n., A place; some definite place spoken of or understood; it does not admit of the definite article; often synonymous with wahi. Kahi kuai, a market place, or simply a market; ma kahi e aku, at another place.

1. v., To rub gently with the thumb and finger.

2. v., To comb, as the hair. (The idea is from the motion of rubbing, polishing.)

3. v., To cut; to shave, as the beard.

4. v., To slit open, to cut longitudinally: kahi i ka opu, kahe i ka omaka.

Hair formerly cut with bamboo knives; to cut longitudinally, shave, comb, press, scrape; a comb. Hair of the head was also cut by placing the locks on a turtle shell plate and cutting across it with a sharkʻs tooth. This was less apt to pull than in using the bamboo knife. (KILO.)

To rub or press, as in a massage; to cut, comb.

Scraper, as for olonā fiber.

a place: some.

a comb: to cut, shave, scrape.

1. Place (contraction of “ka wahi”). Hayselden v. Wahineaea, 10 Haw. 10, 13 (1895). 2. Land. Kaleiheana v. Keahipaka, 23 Haw. 169, 170 (1916). 3. Approximately, about (PE). 4. Place, location (PE). 5. A place (AP).