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1. nvt., To suck, absorb; suckling; to gasp (Kep. 116); to evaporate, as water; absorbent; suction tube, rubber nipple.

• Related:
  • Keiki omo waiū (Nah. 11.12), suckling child.
  • ʻIli omo wai, suction tube.
  • hoʻōmo Caus/sim.; to draw in, as a wave.
• References:
  • PEP ʻomo .

2. nvi., Sport of leaping from heights into water without a splash; to leap thus.

3. n., Remora, sucking fish.

• References:
  • KL. line 155.

4. n., Gourd, as used for a container.

5. Same as alaia, type of surfboard.

• Rare

hamani, To give an electric shock.

• Source:
  • Mānaleo.
• Related:
  • Also: miki.
• References:
  • Cf. ʻūmiʻi.

hamani, To absorb.

• Source:
  • Existing dictionary word
• References:
  • See ʻūomo.
  • Cf. omowaho.
  • See kaupokupoku omo.

v. To suck, as a child. Luk. 22:29.

2. To draw up, as a pump.

3. To cleave together, as if by sucking.

4. To evaporate, as water, and pass into the clouds; ua omoia ke kai e ka wela, a lilo ia i man ao.

adj. Sucking; keiki omo waiu, a sucking child. Nah. 11:12. He mea omo waiu, a suckling. 1 Sam. 22:19. He mea omo, a thing that sucks, i. e., a child.

s. A cover to a calabash or pot.

2. The name given to a long, narrow kind of adz; koi omo.

Sucking: keiki omo waiu, a sucking child; he mea omo waiu, a suckling; he mea omo, a thing that sucks, that is, a child.

2. A cover to a calabash or pot; a movable cover. Syn: Poi.

1. To suck, as a child.

2. To draw up, as a pump.

3. To cleave together as if by sucking.

4. To evaporate, as water, and pass into the clouds; ua omoia ke kai e ka wela, a lilo ia i mau ao.

to suck.