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Reduplication of mae; damp, as clothes suitable for ironing.

  • Examples:
    • Iʻa maemae, fish partially dried, much relished when cooked.

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maʻemaʻe

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

nvs., Clean, pure, attractive, chaste; cleanliness, purity.

  • Examples:
    • Maʻemaʻe ʻole, unclean.
    • Maʻemaʻe loa, extremely clean, immaculate.
    • Maʻemaʻe wale nō ʻo Kauaʻi, hemolele wale i ka mālie (song), a perfect beauty is Kauaʻi, flawless in the calm.

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maʻemaʻe

kikinonoun / maʻe•maʻe / Haw to Eng, Māmaka Kaiao,

kikino, Relating to food products. Organic.

1. v., To be pure; to be clean; to be without defilement physically or morally; to be free from any wrong done to another. Oih. 20:26.

2. Hoomaemae. To cleanse; to make clean; to purify naturally, morally or ceremonially; e hoopau i ka pelapela. Oihk. 8:15.

3. To sanctify; to cleanse what has been impure. Ios. 7:13.

4. To dry; to put up to dry.

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s. Cleanness; purity, either physical or moral; a separation from what is wrong; a separating between good and evil.

adj. Clean; pure; free from defilement morally. Oihk. 11:44.

2. Glorious; good.

3. Dried; put in a situation to dry.

Maemae (ma'e-ma'e), adj.

/ ma'e-ma'e / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

Clean; pure; free from defilement morally and physically.

Maemae (mā'e-mā'e), adj.

/ mā'e-mā'e / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

[Mae. withered.] Withered; drooping.

Maemae (ma'e-ma'e), n.

/ ma'e-ma'e / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

Cleanness; purity, either physical or moral; a separation from what is wrong; a separating between good and evil.

Maemae (ma'e-ma'e), v.

/ ma'e-ma'e / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

To be pure; to be clean; to be without defilement physically or morally; to be free from any wrong.

Maemae (mā'e-māe):

/ mā'e-māe / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

to be pure. Land section, Oahu.

Maʻemaʻe

WahiLocation, Place Names of Hawaiʻi (1974),

Elementary school and hill, Nuʻu-anu, Honolulu. Lit., clean (Elbert and Mahoe 33; UL 108.)

withered, drooping.

clean, pure, chaste.

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