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1. nvt., To see, know, feel, greet, recognize, perceive, experience, be aware, understand; to know sexually (For. 4:275); to receive revelations from the gods; knowledge, awareness, understanding, recognition, comprehension and hence learning; sense, as of hearing or sight; sensory, perceptive, vision.

• Examples:
  • ʻIke nui ʻia, well known, famous.
  • ʻIke ʻē, foresee.
  • ʻIke mamao, far-sighted.
  • ʻIke pōkole, near-sighted.
  • ʻIke wale ʻia, easily seen, conspicuous.
  • Aniani hoʻonui ʻike, magnifying glass, telescope, microscope.
  • Hāiki ka ʻike, narrow-minded, ʻIke aku, ʻike mai, to recognize one another.
  • Ē Leo, e hele mai e ʻike i kō hoahānau, Leo, come and greet your cousin.
  • Pau ka ʻike, to lose consciousness.
  • ʻIke hoʻomaopopo, conscious, consciousness.
  • Ua hele au e ʻike i kuʻu hoaloha; ua pau ka ʻike, pau ka lohe, I went to see my friend, he was in a coma, neither seeing or hearing.
  • He ʻike kumu, he ʻike lau, he ʻike lono, he ʻike pū ʻawa hiwa; Ka ʻike ia āu ē ke akua (hula prayer), a knowledge basic, a knowledge flowering, a knowledge heard, a knowledge from kava offerings; this is the knowledge from you, O god.
• hōʻike Caus/sim.
  • a. To show, make known, display, tell, exhibit, reveal, indicate, inform, report, notify, explain, testify, cause to know or seen, discover, announce, allege; acquaint; testimony, notice, information; identifying characteristics, as of land claims; proof, token guide, exhibition. Hōʻike maopopo aku, to demonstrate clearly. Hōʻike ʻōlelo, grammar. Haʻawina hōʻike, examination, test. Hōʻike ā maka, hōʻike ākea, to reveal openly and clearly. Hōʻike ʻana, show, exhibition, (cap.) Revelation (Biblical). Hōʻike ʻano, description, example, illustration; to tell the nature of, describe. Hōʻike honua, geography. Hōʻike hoʻopōkole, shortened review, synopsis, sketch, summary, outline, resumé. Hōʻike manawa, chronology. Hōʻike panakō, bank statement or report. Palapala hōʻike, affidavit, report.
  • b. Witness, as in court. Hōʻike hoʻopunipuni, hōike wahaheʻe, false witness; to lie, commit perjury. Hōʻike paʻa, witness, one who confirms. Hōʻike pākuʻi, rebuttal.
  • c. School commencement; to hold commencement.
  • d. Congregational convention of various Sunday Schools with singing and recitation. Nā hōʻike makahiki, the annual conventions. PPN kite.
• References:
  • Cf. anaina ʻike aliʻi, ʻike loa.

2. interjection of scorn in the phrase: I ka ʻike! What does [he, she] know!