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maʻi

Haw to Eng, Pukui-Elbert (1986),

1. nvs., Sickness, illness, disease, ailment, patient, sick person; sick, ill, menstruating.

  • Examples:
    • Maʻi make, fatal or terminal disease or sickness.
    • Maʻi na loko, inside sickness [caused by family troubles].
    • Maʻi na waho mai, sickness from outside [caused by sorcery].
  • Related:
    • hoʻomaʻi Caus/sim.; To cause or feign sickness.
  • References:

2. Genitals, genital, genital chant.

  • Related:
    • Mele maʻi, song in honor of genitals, as of a chief, as composed on his or her birth, rarely if ever composed for adults; usually gay and fast.
    • Maʻi were commonly named, as Hālala, overly large, for Kalākaua, and ʻAnapau, frisky, for Liliʻuokalani.
    • He maʻi no ko lani, a genital song in honor of the royal chief.
  • References:

3. n., Tenon.

Nā Lepili ｜ Tags: health anatomy

maʻi

Haw to Eng, Māmaka Kaiao (2003+),

See entries below and hoʻomalu maʻi.

maʻi

Haw to Eng, Kent (1986),

The private parts of either men or women. (A.) Ill, sick, menstruating. (PE.)

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