nanai
1. vs. Difficult to climb, as a cliff; stiff-backed; to walk with stiff back; to strut, act the dandy; to lean back stiffly or haughtily; stiff-backed; humped over as a result of stiffness. Also lanai.
2. Swift. (AP)
nā.nai
1. Same as pānānai, shallow.
2. vi. Empty, as a taro patch. Rare.
3. vi. Taking an uneven course, as a canoe in a rough sea, or a kite. Rare.
nanaʻi
vi. To spread, as a topped tree. Rare.
nā.naʻi
Var. of Lā-naʻi, island name. (For. 6:493.)
NA-NAI
v. To go lightly; to go carefully; to sail lightly and carefully.
2. To love greatly; to love exceedingly; aole okana mai ka nui o ke aloha.
NA-NAI
s. A disease in the back like the hanunu; a stooping; a bending.
2. The person having such a disease. See mele a Niauliu.
Aloha hoi kau ka nanai,
Aloha wale kuu uhane kinowailua,
E ka maua e nonoho nei,
Aole au i ike oia kekahi,
Ua ka ilaila e kokohe ai.
NA-NAI
adj. Empty; void; stripped, as a kalo patch when all the food is taken away; he loi nanai, a kalo patch all pulled.
Nanai (nă'-nă'i), adj.
/ nă'-nă'i /Empty; void; stripped, as a taro patch when all the food is taken away; he loi nanai, a taro patch all pulled.
Nanai (nă'-nā'i), adv.
/ nă'-nā'i /Lightly, swiftly, carefully: hele nanai; holo nanai.
Nanai (nă'-nā'i), n.
/ nă'-nā'i /1. A disease in the back like the hanunu; a stooping; a bending.
2. A person having such a disease.
Nanai (nă'-nā'i), v.
/ nă'-nā'i /1. To go lightly; to glide; to move swiftly; to go carefully; to sail lightly and carefully.
2. To go lightly in consequence of love.
Nāna'i
Dialectal variant of Lā-naʻi. (PH 115.)
nanai
Difficult to climb, as a cliff; humped over as a result of stiffness. See hanunu.
nanai
To walk, as with a stiff back.
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