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1. vt., To burn, set on fire, bake (preceded by ke).

• Examples:
  • E puhi ana kēia kūlanakauhale o kākou i ke puhi ʻana i ke ahi, this town of ours will be burned completely in the fire.
  • Puhi manaʻo ʻino, arson, to burn maliciously.
• References:
  • Cf. hale puhi palaoa.

2. nvi., To blow, puff; blowhole; spouting, as by a whale; to smoke, as tobacco.

• Examples:
  • Noho i ke puhi, to stay in the blowhole [jail].
• Related:
  • hoʻopuhi Caus/sim.; To cause to blow, blow. Figuratively, to steal.
• References:
  • Cf. puhi ʻole.
  • PPN pusi.

3. vt., To extract, as water from steam; to distill, brew.

• Related:
  • Ipu hao puhi, still.

4. n., Eel (see below).

• Examples:
  • Puhi niho wakawaka, sharp-toothed eel (fierce warriors).
  • ʻOni ā puhi ka manaʻo i ka pilikia, the thoughts squirm like an eel because of the trouble.
• References:
  • Cf. waʻa puhi and saying, eel.
  • PNP pusi.
• Notes:
  • A hitherto undescribed eel was identified in 1978 as Gymnothorax ruepelliae.
  • Some persons considered puhi as ʻaumākua.

5. Same as maiʻa puhi, a banana.

6. n., Sticks supporting a pākuʻikuʻi net, called the puhi nui and the puhi ʻuʻuku (or puhi iki). Nets forming the ʻupena papa had the same names.

7. n., Uncircumcised foreskin.

8. See kua puhi, puhi kaokao.

hamani To fire, as clay or ceramics. Dic., ext. mng. See maka puhi.

1. n., A puffing; a blowing; puhi baka, tobacco smoking.

2. n., An eel.

3. n., A current of air driven through a narrow aperture; a blow-hole.

4. n., The spouting of a whale.

while the common blowing of the wind is, perhaps like the English puff.

Place in the sea where the water is black from depth or from deep holes in the rock. (A.) Lua puhi, blowhole. (PE.)

To blow, as the wind.

eel: to puff, blow; to burn, smoke tobacco.

See, kai puhi (SMK).