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1. nvs., Can, may; to be able; ability; possible.

• Examples:
  • Hiki ʻole, impossible, can't do.
  • Pau ka hiki, no longer able to do; impotent.
  • Hiki iāia ke hele mai, he can come; he may [has permission to] come.
  • E hiki ana, when possible.
  • Ka lā e hiki ana, any possible day.
  • Ka manawa e hiki ana, any possible time.
• References:
  • Cf. hiki nō, hikiwale, hikiwawe, Gram. 4.4.

2. interjection, All right, O.K. (in sense of “able to do”), certainly, surely (used alone or preceding nō).

3. vi., To get to or reach a place, come, arrive, approach, appear, arise.

• Examples:
  • Hoʻi maila ia ā hiki i Waikīkī (FS 41), he came back to [until arrived at] Waikīkī.
  • Ua paʻa ia ʻōlelo ā hiki i keia wā, this story has been preserved until this time.
  • Ā hiki lāua malaila (FS 45), when they got there.
  • ʻAʻole i hiki mai, did not come, absent.
  • Hiki honua, to happen suddenly, unexpectedly, by chance.
  • Ua hiki ka lā, aia i luna (FS 39), the sun has risen, there [it] is above.
• Related:
  • Ā + hiki followed by a word expressing time or place, is often translated: to, until.
  • hoʻohiki Caus/sim.; To cause to come, arrive, appear.
    • Hoʻohiki wawe, to rush, come fast, speed up, expedite.
• References:
  • Cf. hikina.
  • PPN fiti .

4. vi., Next.

• Examples:
  • Nā makahiki kanalima e hiki mai ana, the next fifty years.

5. vt., To fetch, carry back and forth (less used than lawe).

• Examples:
  • E hiki mai ʻoe i ka pakeke, fetch the bucket.

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• Related:
  • Kelepona kāki hiki. Collect call; to make such a call.
  • ʻOhi hiki. COD, cash on delivery.

1. v., To come to; to arrive at, as connected with mai or aku.

2. To be able to do a thing; to accomplish a purpose; to prevail. Hiki is often used with other verbs as a kind of helping verb. Gram.§ 171.

3. Hoohiki. To cause to come; to bring forth; to produce. Puk. 8:3.

4. To take an oath; to affirm a thing on an event as true.

5. To call or give a name to. Mat. 22:43, 45. To name or speak of with approbation. Epes. 5:3.

6. To mention in one's prayers. Pilem. 4.

7. To vow; to consecrate; to set apart; to promise a thing especially to a god; to set apart as sacred. 1 Sam. 1:11. Hoohiki ino, to desecrate; to treat with contempt; hoohiki wahahee, to swear falsely; to take a false oath. See hoohiki, s., Hiki wale, to happen; to come by chance.

1. v., The meaning is dependent on the words mai and aku, as: hiki mai, to come to; hiki aku, to go to.

2. v., To be able to do a thing; to accomplish a purpose; to prevail.

to be able, accomplish, arrive; to rise, as the sun.

1. Until. Keopohaku v. Kalaaukapu, 10 Haw. 511, 512 (1896). 2. Has the right to do so. 3. Able; possible; to arrive; admit.