kuai
vt., To scour, rub, polish, grind, scrape; to drag a scraping object; to mark a line from which marbles are shot.
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kuaʻi
vt., To remove internal organs of animals, disembowel; to clean, as chickens.
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kūʻai
hamani ｜ transitive verb / kū.ʻai /vt., To buy, barter. Literally, to stand up food.
- Examples:
- Kūʻai mai, to buy.
- Kūʻai aku, to sell.
- Mea kūʻai mai, customer.
- Kūʻai aku kūʻai mai, buying and selling, trade.
- Kūʻai nui, kūʻai kāʻokoʻa, wholesale.
- Mea nāna i kūʻai mai, buyer.
- Mea kūʻai, purchase.
- Hale kūʻai, store.
- Waiwai kūʻai, goods for sale.
- Kūʻai hoʻopau, close-out or clearance sale.
- Kūʻai hoʻēmi, kūʻai emi, reduction sale.
- Kūʻai hoʻēmi kūikawā, a special sale.
- Kūʻai hoʻolilo, sale.
- Kūʻai kūkaʻa, wholesale buying.
- Kūʻai liʻiliʻi, retail buying or selling; literally, little buying, selling.
- Kūʻai malū, to buy secretly, as contraband or as on a black market.
- Kūʻai nui, wholesale buying; literally, big buying.
- Poʻe kūʻai, merchants.
- Mea kūʻai aku, for sale.
- Kūʻai hele, to go shopping; to go about buying or selling; shopping.
- Kūʻai hōʻaiʻē, to buy on credit.
- References:
- Cf. kūkālā.
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kuaʻi
hamani ｜ transitive verbhamani, To remove, as an opihi from its shell.
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kūʻai
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kuai
hamani ｜ transitive verb / KU-AI /1. v., To rub one thing against another; to grind by rubbing one surface against another; to rub or stir round, as flour in sifting it.
2. To barter one thing for another. NOTE. This was the ancient idea of selling and buying, as Hawaiians formerly had no common circulating medium.
3. To traffic or exchange one commodity for another; after coin began to circulate, kuai lilo mai signified to buy, and kuai lilo aku, to sell. Puk. 21:16. At present, the phrase is contracted into kuai mai, to buy, and kuai aku, to sell; ina i make kahi kanaka, a kuai ia oia i ke akua kii.
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kuai
ʻaʻano ｜ stative verb / KU-AI /adj., Of or belonging to trade; he hale kuai, a house for sale, or a house where sales are made, i.e., a store; waiwai kuai, goods or property for sale.
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kuai
ʻaʻano ｜ stative verb / kū-āi /adj., Of or belonging to trade: he hale kuai, a house for sale, or a house where sales are made, that is, a store; waiwai kuai, goods or property for sale.
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kuai
hamani ｜ transitive verb / kū'-āi /1. v., To rub one thing against another.
2. v., To grind by rubbing one surface against another.
3. v., To rub or stir round, as in sifting flour.
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kuai
hamani ｜ transitive verb / kū'-ă'i /1. v., To barter one thing for another. (This was the ancient idea of selling and buying, as Hawaiians formerly had no common circulating medium.)
2. v., To traffic or exchange one commodity for another. After coin began to circulate, kuai lilo mai signified to buy, and kuai lilo aku, to sell. At present, the phrase is contracted into kuai mai, to buy, and kuai aku, to sell.
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kūʻai
To barter one thing for another.
kuai
to rub or grind two together.
kua‘i
to remove entrails.
ku‘ai
to barter.
kūʻai
1. Sell. Branca v. Makuakane, 13 Haw. 499 (1901); Mist v. Kawelo, 11 Haw. 587, 588 (1898). 2. Conveyance. McCandless v. Waiahole Water Co., Ltd., 35 Haw. 314, 317-318 (1940). 3. Buy, purchase (HRH).
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