What does mahi mean in Hawaiian?
Mahi is to work the land. A mahiʻai is a farmer, and mahi appears wherever cultivation does. Doubled, mahimahi is the fish — a separate word that happens to look like this one repeated.
Say it MAH-hee. Every vowel is pronounced, and the capitalized syllable takes the stress. The pronunciation guide covers the rules.
On this site mahi is part of 1 names: 0 begin with it, 0 end with it, and 1 carry it elsewhere. Most are boy names, and all of them sit in the group of Hawaiian names meaning earth.