Moki
noun
Hopi.
Moki
American
[moh-kee]
/ ˈmoʊ ki /
Or
Moqui
noun
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Mokis,
plural
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Moki
plural
moki
British
/ ˈməʊkɪ /
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of moki
Māori
Example Sentences
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Cherry spent the ’70s in Sweden with his partner, Moki, where the two would create what they called “organic music” with like-minded local artists.
From New York Times ● Mar. 6, 2024
Ms Moki says elephants come every day from the nearby Tsavo national park, one of the world's largest game sanctuaries, home to about 15,000 of the mammals.
From BBC ● May 12, 2023
Without her crops, Ms Moki cannot feed her family or sell her produce to pay the school fees for her 10-year-old daughter.
From BBC ● May 12, 2023
Last year, Brooklyn’s nonprofit Blank Forms gallery highlighted the atmospheric collaboration of experimental trumpeter Don Cherry and textile artist Moki Cherry, which defied genres and fully encapsulated their married lives.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 8, 2022
I cannot answer; but this I do know, that Acoma is as different from the other Hopi or Moki mesas as Fifth Avenue is from the Bowery.
From Through Our Unknown Southwest by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut
O kia ka piko o ke olona, Stripped off is the bark of the alona, Ihi a ka ili no moki no lena, Peeled is the bark of the yellow moki.
From Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands by Charles Nordhoff
By the Mokis, maidenhood is indicated by wearing the hair as a disk on each side of the head.
From Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Henry Theophilus Finck
Many of the ruins in this vicinity, according to the traditions of the Mokis, have been occupied in comparatively recent times—-a number of them having been abandoned since the Spanish conquest of the country.
From Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891 by John Wesley Powell
The Mokis also are careful to stir medicines according to the sinistral circuit.
From Current Superstitions Collected from the Oral Tradition of English Speaking Folk by Fanny D. (Fanny Dickerson) Bergen
Some of them, as the Mokis and Lagunas, are organized in gentes, and governed by a council of chiefs, each village being independent and self-governing.
From Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines by Lewis H. Morgan
One migrated to the south—the Pimas, the Papagoes, the Maricopas; the others crossed the mountains to the north—the Zuñis, the Mokis, the Hopis.
From Through Our Unknown Southwest by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut
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