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nvt., Food or food plant, especially vegetable food as distinguished from iʻa, meat or fleshy food; often ʻai refers specifically to poi; harvest (Oihk. 19.9); to eat, destroy or consume as by fire; to erode; to taste, bite, take a hook, grasp, hold on to; edible. Figuratively, to rule, reign, or enjoy the privileges and exercise the responsibilities of rule, and one who does so, as ʻai ahupuaʻa: to rule an ahupuaʻa, the ruler of one; ʻaiʻāina: to own, control, and enjoy land; the owner of land; ʻai aliʻi, ʻai lani, and ʻai liʻi, to enjoy the comforts and honors and exercise the responsibilities of being a chief; ʻai ʻili: to control an ʻili land division, one who does control the ʻili; ʻai moku: to rule a district or island [moku], one who rules one.

• Examples:
  • Hiki ke ʻai ʻia, edible.
  • ʻAi ʻaha, to tie with sennit.
  • ʻAʻohe kapu o kaʻu pā hula, he ʻai kū, he ʻai hele, there are no taboos in my hula troupe, eat standing, eat on the run.
  • ʻAʻoheʻai ʻo ka maʻi, the disease makes no advance.
  • Kāna ʻai, his food.
  • Kona ʻai, his eating.
• Related:
  • Various ways of eating may qualify ʻai, as ʻai, hele, ʻai lau, and ʻai noa, to eat freely and without observance of taboos (see also ʻai kū); ʻai kapu, to eat under taboo; ʻai kau, to feed by dropping poi directly from the fingers into the mouth, especially to feed a favorite child this way; ʻai maka, to eat raw; ʻai pau, to eat all.
  • Mōhai ʻai (Oihk. 2.14), cereal offering.
  • Pāʻū ʻai kaua (For. 4:53), sarong worn in battle.
  • hōʻai Caus/sim.; To feed, give food to, board.
• References:
  • Cf. ʻaialo, ʻai kanaka, ʻai nui, ʻai ʻokoʻa, ʻai paʻa, ʻai pala maunu, ʻai pilau, ʻai ʻuhaʻuha, ʻai waiū.
  • PPN kai.

2. n., Score, points in a game, stake, wager.

• Examples:
  • ʻEhia ʻai e eo ai? How many points to win?
• References:
  • PPN kai.

3. n., Dancing style or type.

• References:
  • Cf. ʻai ʻami, ʻai haʻa.

4. n., Stroke or hold in lua fighting; spear thrust.

• Examples:
  • Ka ʻai a ke kumu i koe iā ʻoukou (For. 5:409), the teacher's stroke that you do not have [have not been taught].
  • Kaʻai a ka uʻi, the stroke of the youth.

5. n., Stone used in the kimo game other than the stone that is tossed and caught, which is the pōhaku kimo.

kikino, Point, as in a game or sporting event.

• Source:
  • Existing dictionary word
• References:
  • See heluʻai, kāpuka ʻai, lāʻau make ʻai, lilo ka ʻai iā Mea.

kikino, Byte, in computer terminology.

• Source:
  • Existing dictionary word, Extended meaning
• References:
  • See huna, ʻai pākaukani, ʻai pāmiliona, ʻai pāpiliona.

kikino, Credit, as for a school course.

• Source:
  • Existing dictionary word, Extended meaning
• Examples:
  • ʻAi koina. Core credit.
  • ʻAi koho. Elective credit.

hamani, To take, as medicine or a pill.

• Source:
  • Existing dictionary word, Extended meaning
• Examples:
  • ʻAi i ka huaale. To take a pill.
  • ʻAi i ka lāʻau. To take medicine.
• References:
  • Cf. inu.

hamani, Ingest.

• Source:
  • Existing dictionary word, Extended meaning

Food, vegetable food as distinguished from meat (iʻa); to eat, taste.

Hula step.

1. To rule, reign. 2. To own, control, or enjoy (PE).