adv
Meaning 1
inland, towards the mountains.
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Usage: Hawaii, not-comparable
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Standard Lemma guide
mauka
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noun
Meaning 2
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.
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noun
Meaning 3
One of the edible tuberous roots this plant produces.
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History
Etymology
Borrowed from Hawaiian mauka (“landward, shoreward (from the sea), towards the inland”).
From Aymara mauka (“mauka (Mirabilis expansa)”).