Wehewehe Wikiwiki Hawaiian language dictionaries

1. vi. To jump, leap, hop, move up and down, vibrate; to spatter; to teeter, seesaw; to weigh, as on scales; a seesaw. hoʻo.mahiki To cause to leap, jump, etc. (PPN mafiti.)

2. vt. To cast out spirits, exorcise, especially with mahiki shrimps; to treat in turn, as troubles in hoʻoponopono family therapy (Na_na_ 75–7). Mahiki ana i nā mea ʻino, treating the deep troubles.

3. n. Any kind of shrimp used ceremoniously.

4. Same as ʻakiʻaki, a grass used to exorcise evil spirits, especially when shrimps are not available.

5. vt. To pry; peel off, as a scab; to appear. Mahiki ka lā i ka ʻilikai, the sun came forth on the horizon.

6. Same as ʻuku kai, a sand hopper.

7. n. A variety of taro.

kikino Grass, general term; lawn. Niʻihau. Also mauʻu. ʻOki i ka mahiki. To mow the lawn.

A sand hopper, same as ʻuku kai; amphipod. Nicknamed back flea.

To jump, hop, leap, teeter, seesaw.

Thick, tall grass (Sporobolus virginicus), a turf-forming, sand-binding rush grass, common on beaches of Hawaiʻi. It is also used as lawn grass around beach houses. Same as ʻakiʻaki, a grass used to exorcise evil spirits, especially when mahiki shrimps were not available. (NEAL 66.) See mānienie ʻakiʻaki.

Fulcrum for a lever.

I. o ke kipaku aku i na uhane ino. Mahiki aku no na lunaolelo i na uhane ino ma ka inoa o Kristo, Mat. 10:1; Mar. 16:17; Luk. 10:17; a he poe hoopunipuni kekahi e hoao i keia hana mamua o ka make ana o Kristo, a mahope hoi, Mat. 12:27; Mar. 9:38; Luk. 9:49,50; Oih. 19:13-17. Ua manaoia, ua loaa mai i kekahi poe keia mana ma ka hana kupua, a me ka anaana, a me na mea like; aka, he mea hoopunipuni no ia. E nana NINAU-UHANE.

to vibrate: to peel off as scale; to exorcise.