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mauka

mauka adverb: inland, towards the mountains.

Adverb

mauka (not comparable)

  1. (Hawaii) inland, towards the mountains.

Noun

mauka (plural maukas)

  1. The flowering Andean root vegetable Mirabilis expansa, which was important to the Incas and which survives in cold, windy places several thousand meters above sea level.
  2. One of the edible tuberous roots this plant produces.

Synonyms of mauka

Forms of mauka

pluralmaukas

Origin of mauka

Borrowed from Hawaiian mauka (“landward, shoreward (from the sea), towards the inland”).

From Aymara mauka (“mauka (Mirabilis expansa)”).

Questions about mauka

What does mauka mean?
Mauka means inland, towards the mountains.
What part of speech is mauka?
Mauka can be an adverb or a noun.

Words near mauka in the dictionary

  1. Maui County
  2. Maui Wowie
  3. Mauian
  4. Mauians
  5. Mauk
  6. mauka
  7. maukas
  8. maukin
  9. maukins
  10. maukish
  11. Mauks

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