Moki
noun
Hopi.
Moki
American
[moh-kee]
/ ˈmoʊ ki /
Or
Moqui
noun
Mokis,
plural
Moki
plural
moki
British
/ ˈməʊkɪ /
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of moki
Māori
Example Sentences
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It starts with my mother, Moki Cherry, on tamboura droning away and Charlie Haden’s sublime bass; this goes on for several minutes.
From New York Times ● Mar. 6, 2024
Don and Moki hosted improvised performances in an old schoolhouse they lived in.
From New York Times ● Mar. 6, 2024
Ms Moki says the situation is getting more intolerable, and their concerns have not been addressed.
From BBC ● May 12, 2023
"If an elephant hurts, injures or kills me, my family will suffer," Ms Moki says.
From BBC ● May 12, 2023
No region of our Southwest presents more instructive antiquities than the ancient province of Tusayan, more widely known as the Moki reservation.
From Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 by Fewkes, Jesse Walter
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 Nordhoff, Charles
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 Finck, Henry Theophilus
In 1630 Benavides speaks of the Mokis as being rapidly converted.
From Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 by Fewkes, Jesse Walter
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 Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)
Even the Mokis, Tunis and Pimos still regard Mo-ti as immortal and await his return.
From Ancient Chinese account of the Grand Canyon, or course of the Colorado by McAllan, Alexander
I've got a bid from old Silver Arrow, and then I'm going to Walpi and see the Mokis dance.
From The Eagle's Heart by Garland, Hamlin
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