different between kukri vs kukui

English

Alternative forms

• khukuri
• kukuri

Etymology

From Nepali ?????? (khukur?).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k?k?i/

Noun

kukri (plural kukris)

1. A curved Nepalese knife used especially by Gurkha fighters; many variants exist, but all share recurve as a common theme.
   • 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York Review Books 2006, p. 171:

     In the later part of the Second World War it was customary in the French army to vaunt the ferocity of ‘their’ Algerian Tirailleurs against the Germans, much as the British took pride in the deeds performed by the Gurkhas with their terrible kukris.

   • 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society 2010, p. 356:

     Soon, however, the bayonets of the 72nd Highlanders and the kukris of the 2nd Gurkhas began to tell.

Translations

English

Etymology

From Hawaiian kukui.

Noun

kukui (plural kukuis)

1. (Hawaii) Aleurites moluccana, the candlenut tree.
   • 2012, Julia Flynn Siler, Lost Kingdom, Grove Press, p. 43:

     Passing through a grove of kukui trees, with their silver-gray leaves, and then through a valley, they would have reached sugarcane fields, their stalks as tall as a man and densely clumped together.

Hawaiian

Noun

kukui

1. kukui
2. torch, light