# uhi
## Hawaiian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈu.hi/

### Etymology 1

From Proto-Polynesian *qufi (Maori uwhi, Samoan ufi), from Proto-Oceanic *qupi (compare Fijian uvi), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qubi (compare with Malay ubi, Tagalog ube).

#### Noun

uhi
* yam (Dioscorea)

##### Derived terms

* uhi hoʻonohonoho (“variety of yam with red skin and white flesh”)
* uhi kalakoa (“variety of yam having a tuber with mottled red and white skin and white flesh”)
* uhi keʻokeʻo (“variety of yam having a tuber with white flesh and skin”)
* uhi laha (“variety of yam with white flesh”)
* uhi lehua (“variety of yam having a tuber with pink flesh”)
* uhi Niʻihau (“variety of yam having a tuber with pink skin”)
* uhi poni (“variety of yam having a tuber with red skin and red and white flesh”)
* uhi ʻālela (“white yam”)
* uhi ʻuala (“variety of yam having a tuber like a sweet potato”)
* uhi ʻula (“variety of yam having a tuber with pink flesh”)
* uhi ʻulaʻula (“variety of yam having a tuber with pink flesh”)

### Etymology 2

From Proto-Polynesian *qufi

#### Noun

uhi
* covering, veil
* solid-ink tattoo
* tent

##### Usage notes

According to the Combined Hawaiian Dictionary, this word, in the sense of 'solid tattoo', may specifically refer to an ornamental marking on the skin made by the gall of a raw shellfish.

##### Derived terms

* kākau uhi (“to tattoo with solid ink”)
* uhia (“covering”)

#### Verb

uhi
* (transitive) to cover, conceal, spread
* (transitive) to overwhelm
    Ua uhi ʻia kō lāua mau manaʻo i ke aloha.Their thoughts were overwhelmed with love.
* (figuratively) to hide the truth, deceive
* (transitive, of a feather cloak) to don
* (transitive, of a bed) to make

##### Derived terms

* hoʻouhi (“to cover”)

### Etymology 3
#### Noun

uhi
* large bluish-brown birthmark

### Etymology 4
#### Noun

uhi
* oyster
* mother-of-pearl shank

### Etymology 5
#### Noun

uhi
* turtle shell used for scraping olonā fibre

### References

* 1 2 Pukui, Mary Kawena, Elbert, Samuel H. (1986) “uhi”, in Hawaiian Dictionary, revised & enlarged edition, Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai'i Press, →ISBN, page 364
* ↑ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “qufi.1”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online
* ↑ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “qufi.3”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online
* uhi in Combined Hawaiian Dictionary, at trussel2.com.

## Kapingamarangi
### Noun

uhi
* (anatomy) nose

## Maori
### Etymology 1

From Proto-Polynesian *qufi (compare with Hawaiian uhi, Samoan ufi), from Proto-Oceanic *qupi (compare with Fijian uvi), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qubi (compare with Malay ubi, Tagalog ube). Doublet of uwhi.

#### Noun

uhi
* yam (Dioscorea)

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

uhi
* a chisel-like tool used to puncture Maori tattoos (moko)

### See also

* oka
* uwhi

### References

* ↑ Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary‎, Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, page 573
* ↑ “Qufi ~ Uwhi, Uhi”, in Te Māra Reo‎, Benson Family Trust, 2023

## Ternate
### Etymology

From Proto-North Halmahera *uhis (“to flow”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈu.hi]

### Verb

uhi
* (intransitive) to stream, to flow
    ongo uhi ― tears flowed

#### Conjugation
### References

* Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

## Tetum
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qubi (“purple yam”).

### Noun

uhi
* sweet potato (Manihot utilissima)