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paʻa.kai

Haw to Eng, Pukui-Elbert (1986),

n.

1. Salt; encrusted discharge in the inner corners of the eyes, as after sleeping. Types of salt are paʻakai lele wai, very fine, dried salt; paʻakai walewale, slimy salt; paʻakai puʻupuʻu, coarse salt; paʻakai lepo, salt mixed with earth; paʻakai ʻulaʻula, salt mixed with ocherous earth. Cf. alaea 1. Loko-paʻakai, Salt Lake City. (Perhaps PNP pakatai; cf. East Futuna.)

2. A variety of taro, usually grown in the uplands, the plant short and stocky; petioles dark-green, edged with red; corm flesh white, used chiefly for poi.

3. Same as līpaʻakai, a seaweed.

paʻakai

ʻaʻano ｜ stative verb / paʻakai / Haw to Eng, Māmaka Kaiao,

ʻaʻano, One of five basic tastes, in culinary science. Salty.

PAA-KAI

Haw to Eng, Andrews (1865),

s. Paa and kai, sea water. Salt; that which gives sea water its taste; ke kumu o ke kai. Oihk. 2:13.

2. A species of kalo.

Paakai (pa'a-kă'i), n.

/ pa'a-kă'i / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

[Paa and kai, sea water.] Salt; that which gives sea water its taste; ke kumu o ke kai.

Paakai (pa'a-kā-ī'), n.

/ pa'a-kā-ī' / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

A variety of the taro plant.

Paakai (pā'ā-kā'i):

/ pā'ā-kā'i / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

salt. Point. Lanai.

paʻakai

Haw to Eng, Kent (1986),

Salt; any encrustation, as in the corners of the eyes.

PAAKAI

Haw to Eng, Wehiwehi Baibala (1872),

I. Ua loaa i na Iudaio ka paakai ma ke Kaimake. Ua kii aku ko Arabia malaila i wahi apana paakai nui, a kuai aku ma kela wahi keia wahi ma Suria. Ua akaka ma ka Baibala kona ano maikai i mea e miko ai ka ai, i mea e kapi ai i kela mea keia mea e pono ai, Iob. 6:6, 2 Nalii 2:21; o ka mohai kekahi, Oihk. 2:13; Ez. 43:24; Mar. 9:49: o ka mea ala kekahi, Puk. 30:35. Pela hoi ua kapaia ka poe pono 'ka paakai o ka honua;' a o ka naauao, ka paakai o ka olelo ana, Mar. 9:50; Kol. 4:6. E nana hoi Ez. 16:4. Ina he nui ka paakai ma ka aina, he aina panoa ia, e like me Sodoma a me Gomora, Kan. 29:23; Iob. 36:6: Ez. 47:11; Zep. 2:9. He hoailona no ka paakai o ka mau ana. Pela ua oleloia mai, 'He berita paakai mau loa ia imua o Iehova,' Nah. 18:19; 2 Oihlii. 13:5; He hoailona hoi ia o ka hookipa, Ez. 4:14.

pa‘akai

Haw to Eng, Judd/Pukui/Stokes (1943),

salt.

paʻakai

Haw to Eng, Land Terms (1995),

Sea salt (PE).

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