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1. nvs., Sickness, illness, disease, ailment, patient, sick person; sick, ill, menstruating.

• Examples:
  • Maʻi make, fatal or terminal disease or sickness.
  • Maʻi na loko, inside sickness [caused by family troubles].
  • Maʻi na waho mai, sickness from outside [caused by sorcery].
• Related:
  • hoʻomaʻi Caus/sim.; To cause or feign sickness.
• References:
  • PNP maki .

2. Genitals, genital, genital chant.

• Related:
  • Mele maʻi, song in honor of genitals, as of a chief, as composed on his or her birth, rarely if ever composed for adults; usually gay and fast.
  • Maʻi were commonly named, as Hālala, overly large, for Kalākaua, and ʻAnapau, frisky, for Liliʻuokalani.
  • He maʻi no ko lani, a genital song in honor of the royal chief.
• References:
  • See ēhā.

3. n., Tenon.

• Related:
  • Also: komo, ule.

See entries below and hoʻomalu maʻi.