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hāiki

/ hā.iki / Haw to Eng, Pukui-Elbert (1986),

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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adj. Ha and iki, small. See IKI.

1. Narrow, as a passage; pinched; scanty.

2. Suffering for want of food.

v. To be pinched for want; to be pinched with hunger. Mar. 2:25. To be desolate; bereaved. Laieik. 142.

Haiki (hā'-ĭ-ki), adj.

/ hā'-ĭ-ki / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

[Ha, a trough for water to run through, and iki, small.]

1. Narrow.

2. Pinched; scanty.

3. Suffering for want of food.

Haiki (hā'-ĭ-ki), v.

/ hā'-ĭ-ki / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

1. To be in want.

2. To feel desolate; bereaved.

3. To be disappointed.

Haiti, Haitian.

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Suffering for want of food; pinched with hunger. (Mar. 2:25.)

narrow, pinched.

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