What does mahiʻai mean in Hawaiian?
Mahiʻai joins mahi, to cultivate, with ʻai, food: one who works the land for food. It is the ordinary word for a farmer and names one of the central occupations of the traditional economy.
Say it mah-hee-EYE. Every vowel is pronounced, and the capitalized syllable takes the stress. The ʻokina (ʻ) is a short catch in the voice, like the break in “uh-oh”. The pronunciation guide covers the rules.
On this site mahiʻai 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.