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kāohi

/ kā.ohi / Haw to Eng, Pukui-Elbert,

vt., To hold back, detain, restrain, prevent, repress, withhold, check, try to hold back, control.

  • Examples:
    • Hiki ʻole ke kāohi, unrestrained, uncontrollable.
    • Kāohi iāia iho, to control himself.
    • E kāohi iho ʻoe i kou manaʻo kolohe, repress your mischievous thoughts.
    • Kāohi nā aliʻi iāia e noho, ʻaʻole ʻoia i ʻae mai, the chiefs tried to make him stay but he didn't consent.
    • Ka pali kāohi kumu aliʻi o ʻIao, the cliff withholding chiefly origins of ʻIao [burial place of chiefs].
    • Kāohi waʻa … kāohi aku (FS 127), to hold a canoe in place with a paddle while others cast for bonito.
  • References:
    • See ex., ʻuoʻuo.
    • PPN taʻofi, PNP taaʻofi.

2. nvt., Style of chanting in which prolonged vowels are cut off with glottal stops; to chant thus.

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kāohi

Haw to Eng, Māmaka Kaiao,

hamani To control. Kāohi ʻia ka maʻi ma ka ʻai ʻana i ka lāʻau. Sickness is controlled by taking medication. Dic. See entries below. Kulekele kāohi. Containment, as a government policy of preventing the expansion of a hostile power or ideology.

KA-O-HI

Haw to Eng, Andrews,

v. To fix; to establish.

2. To abide; to continue to adhere firmly to a thing or course of conduct; to be steadfast.

3. To keep; to retain; to keep back.Laieik.176. To restrain.

4. To invite to stay when one is about to go away or further on. Luk. 24:29.

5. To keep, i. e., to pay regard to a law or command.

6. To restrain one from doing a thing by friendly advice.

7. To compel or urge. 2, Oihl. 21:11. Kaohi na 'lii ia ia e noho, aole oia i ae mai, the chiefs urged him to stay, but he did not consent; e kaohi, i kou wawae, to refrain the foot from wandering. Ier. 14:10. To restrain; to hold back. Hal. 19:13.

8. To keep, as a promise. 1 Nal. 8:24.

9. To choose. Isa. 7:15.

10. To save; to screen, as a guilty person from purnishment.Ezek. 13:19.

Kaohi (kā'-ō'-hi), v.

/ kā'-ō'-hi / Haw to Eng, Parker,

To keep in possession; to continue to hold; to restrain from departure: kaohi na lii iaia e noho, aoie oia i ae mai; the chiefs urged him to stay, but he did not consent.

Kaohi (kă-o'hi):

/ kă-o'hi / Haw to Eng, Parker,

the collection. Land section, Lanai.

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