mahu

From Hawaiian māhū.

mahu (plural mahus or mahu)

1. (Hawaii) A person of the third gender, having traditional spiritual and social roles in the cultures of Hawaii and Tahiti.
2. (Hawaii, slang, derogatory) A gay person; homosexual.

mahu

1. genitive singular of maht

mahu

1. inflection of mahtuma:
   1. present indicative connegative
   2. second-person singular present imperative

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈmahu/ [ˈma.hu]
• Rhymes: -ahu
• Syllabification: ma‧hu

mahu

1. alternative spelling of mau

• mau (nonstandard)

Attested in Hikayat Bayan Budiman, c. 1371. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /ˈma(h)u/ [ˈma.(h)u]
• Rhymes: -u
• Hyphenation: ma‧hu

mahu

1. to want, to desire
2. (auxiliary) will

• > Indonesian: mau (inherited)

• "mahu" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017

From Proto-Polynesian *mafu.

mahu

1. bad; stale (of food)
2. fermented

mahu (Cyrillic spelling маху)

1. dative/locative singular of mah

mahu

1. genitive/dative/locative singular of mah

From Proto-Polynesian *mafu.

mahu

1. bad (of taste or smell through spoiling or rotting)

mahu (clitic meronym; singulative mahu, dual mahukipë, definite plural mahuku, indefinite plural mahupë)

1. foot

• Perri Ferreira, Helder (2017), Yanomama Clause Structure‎^[1], volume 1, Utrecht: LOT, →ISBN, pages 116, 126, 133–135, 143–144, 179