mauka

Meanings

Adverb

• inland, towards the mountains.

Noun

• The flowering Andean root vegetable Mirabilis expansa (species), which was important to the Incas and which survives in cold, windy places several thousand meters above sea level.
• One of the edible tuberous roots this plant produces.

Related

Similar words

• chago

Origin

• Borrowed from Hawaiian mauka ("landward, shoreward (from the sea), towards the inland").