OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

Entry record from de Clercq (1890): Ternate

Page number: 315

hami

•  to kiss; embrace.zoenen; kussen; omhelzen.

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

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