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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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
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
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
Ms Moki tries to deter the elephants with bright lights and loud noises and has developed several improvised techniques to prevent them from raiding her crops.
From BBC ● May 12, 2023
At the Agency Office here you must obtain a permit to go on into Moki Land; for the Three Mesas and Oraibi and Hotoville are the Ultima Thule of the trail across the Painted Desert.
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
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 Alexander McAllan
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
Up the narrow acclivities leading to these mesa crests the Mokis must bring all provisions, all water, their ponies and donkeys.
From Through Our Unknown Southwest by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut
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 Jesse Walter Fewkes
The custom survives in a symbolical form among the Mokis, who observe the festivals of the winter solstice and the vernal equinox.
From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism by Havelock Ellis
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