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Reduplication of pani #1; interception, shutting off, as from view; to block.

• Examples:
  • Halo papani ka ʻeha, the pain shuts off breath.
  • Ka moʻo pekena koli i papani i kona pepeiao (Hal. 58.4), the deaf adder that has stopped up her ear.
• References:
  • PCP papani.

1. v., See pani, to stop up. To shut, as an opening; to close; to shut up. Isa. 66:9.

2. To shut, as a door or other shutter. Kin. 7:6.

3. To hide; to conceal; to veil; to put out of sight.

4. To close or stop, as the ears. Oih. 7:57.

5. To hide; to close the eyes. Puk. 3:6.

6. To shut up one, as if sick or infected. Oihk. 13:4.

7. To hold fast; to bind; to hinder one from doing a thing.

8. To turn on the hinges, as a door.

adj., Shutting out; parting off, as a partition; closing up.

adj., Intercepting.

n., A shutting out; a parting off.

[Pani, to stop up.]

1. v., To shut, as an opening; to close; to shut up.

2. v., To shut, as a door or other shutter.

Pronoun.

• References:
  • See also kikino, iʻoa.

a shutting out; river boom: to shut.