OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

Entry record from de Clercq (1890): Ternate

Page number: 315

hami

•  to kiss; embrace(eng).zoenen; kussen; omhelzen(nld).

sarta hami gonyirah si gabadiand they embraced each other first left and then right(eng)

Note: This is a formality during the greeting of the Resident and the Sultan on state occasions