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puhi

Haw to Eng, Pukui-Elbert (1986),

1. vt., To burn, set on fire, bake (preceded by ke).

  • Examples:
    • E puhi ana kēia kūlanakauhale o kākou i ke puhi ʻana i ke ahi, this town of ours will be burned completely in the fire.
    • Puhi manaʻo ʻino, arson, to burn maliciously.
  • References:

2. nvi., To blow, puff; blowhole; spouting, as by a whale; to smoke, as tobacco.

  • Examples:
    • Noho i ke puhi, to stay in the blowhole [jail].
  • Related:
    • hoʻopuhi Caus/sim.; To cause to blow, blow. Figuratively, to steal.
  • References:

3. vt., To extract, as water from steam; to distill, brew.

4. n., Eel (see below).

  • Examples:
    • Puhi niho wakawaka, sharp-toothed eel (fierce warriors).
    • ʻOni ā puhi ka manaʻo i ka pilikia, the thoughts squirm like an eel because of the trouble.
  • References:
  • Notes:
    • A hitherto undescribed eel was identified in 1978 as Gymnothorax ruepelliae.
    • Some persons considered puhi as ʻaumākua.

5. Same as maiʻa puhi, a banana.

6. n., Sticks supporting a pākuʻikuʻi net, called the puhi nui and the puhi ʻuʻuku (or puhi iki). Nets forming the ʻupena papa had the same names.

7. n., Uncircumcised foreskin.

8. See kua puhi, puhi kaokao.

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puhi

Haw to Eng, Māmaka Kaiao,

hamani To fire, as clay or ceramics. Dic., ext. mng. See maka puhi.

PU-HI

Haw to Eng, Andrews (1865),

v. To blow or puff wind; to breathe hard.

2. To blow, as to blow the fire; e puhi i ke ahi; to burn in the fire; to set on fire; to burn up.

3. E puhi i ke kukui, to blow out the lamp.

4. To blow the (conch) shell or trumpet. Nah. 10:34.

5. To blow, as the wind; as a strong wind. Kekah. 1:6. To blow up.

6. To puff tobacco smoke.

7. To puff at one in a way of contempt; to treat insolently.

8. To distill rum or any liquor; e puhi rama; to burn incense; e puhi i ka mea ala. Puk. 30:1. E puhi ka awa mai ka awa a hiki i ke koa.

PU-HI

Haw to Eng, Andrews (1865),

s. A puffing; a blowing; puhi baka, tobacco smoking.

2. An eel; he ia loihi, mau maka kalalea.

3. Name of a place in the sea where the water is black from depth or from deep holes in the rocks.

PU-HI

Haw to Eng, Andrews (1865),

adj. He mai pulou, he puhi.

puhi

/ pū'-hi / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

1. n., A puffing; a blowing; puhi baka, tobacco smoking.

2. n., An eel.

3. n., A current of air driven through a narrow aperture; a blow-hole.

4. n., The spouting of a whale.

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Puhi (pū'-hi), n.

Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

An uncut foreskin.

Puhi (pŭ'-hi), v.

Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

1. To blow or puff wind; to breathe hard.

2. To blow, as to blow the fire: e puhi i ke ahi; to burn in the fire; to set on fire; to burn up; e puhi i ke kukui, to blow out the lamp.

3. To blow the (conch) shell or trumpet.

4. To blow, as the wind; as a strong wind.

5. To blow up; to spout water.

6. To puff tobacco smoke.

7. To puff at one in a way of contempt: to treat insolently.

8. To extract by distillation, as in the distilling of liquor from the root of the ti plant.

Puhi

Wahi ｜ Location, Place Names of Hawaiʻi (1974),

Village and stream, Līhuʻe district, Kauaʻi. A shark god, Ka-holi-a-Kāne (the sprouting [made] by Kāne) lived in a cave here. Lit., blow.

Puhi

Wahi ｜ Location, Hawaiʻi Place Names (2002),

Bay, Keaukaha, Hawaiʻi. Keaukaha Beach Park is on the shore of the bay. The bay was named for a blowhole on the western side of the bay that fronted the sewage treatment plant. Construction of the outfall destroyed the blowhole. Lit., blowhole.

pūhi

Haw to Eng, Kent (1986),

General name for eels.

puhi

Haw to Eng, Kent (1986),

while the common blowing of the wind is, perhaps like the English puff.

pūhi

Haw to Eng, Kent (1986),

Uncircumsized foreskin.

puhi

Haw to Eng, Kent (1986),

Place in the sea where the water is black from depth or from deep holes in the rock. (A.) Lua puhi, blowhole. (PE.)

puhi

Haw to Eng, Kent (1986),

To blow, as the wind.

puhi

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

eel: to puff, blow; to burn, smoke tobacco.

puhi

Haw to Eng, Land Terms (1995),

See, kai puhi (SMK).

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