hāiki
/ hā.iki /nvs., Narrow, pinched; limitation, restriction (in fast speech, haiki).
- Examples:
- Hāiki ka noʻonoʻo, hāiki ka ʻike, narrow minded.
- Aia nō i kahi hāiki, just there in a narrow place [said of an unborn child].
- Ka hāiki o ka manawa, limitations of time.
- Kona wā i hāiki ai i ka pōloli (Mar. 2.25), the time he was pinched with hunger.
- Haʻihaʻi pua o kuʻu manawa ē, eia wau lā ua hāiki (Laie 521), broken flowers of my heart, here I am in straits.
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