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Mokulua

WahiLocation, Hawaiʻi Place Names (2002),

Islands (24.1 acres, 225 feet high), Kailua, Oʻahu. Collective name for two islands approximately three-quarters of a mile off Wailea Point in Lanikai. Both are part of the Hawaiʻi State Seabird Sanctuary and primary nesting sites for wedgetailed shearwaters and Bulwer's petrels. The calcareous sand beach in the lee of Moku Nui, the larger island, is a popular landing site for boaters, kayakers, and surfers. Both islands are also known as the Mokuluas, Mokes, and Twin Islands. The larger island is also known as Big Moke, Moku Nui, and Two Humps. The smaller island is also known as Baby Moke, Moku Iki, and One Hump. Lit., two islands.

Hawaiian Archipelago

WahiLocation, Hawaiʻi Place Names (2002),

Chain of islands in the central Pacific Ocean that includes the eight major Hawaiian Islands: Hawaiʻi, Maui, Molokaʻi, Lānaʻi, Kahoʻolawe, Oʻahu, Kauaʻi, and Niʻihau. Each island is the summit of a mountain rising from the ocean floor. Beyond the eight major islands, the archipelago includes the islands and associated reefs and banks beyond Niʻihau that are known as the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.

Nā LepiliTags: Hawaiʻi Maui Molokaʻi Lānaʻi Kahoʻolawe Oʻahu Kauaʻi Niʻihau

Maui

WahiLocation, Hawaiʻi Place Names (2002),

Maui is the second largest (727.3 square miles) of the eight major Hawaiian islands and one of four islands in Maui County. It has a population of 117,644. The highest mountain on the island is Haleakalā, with an elevation of 10,023 feet, and the pua lokelani, or rose, is the emblem of the island. Maui's nickname is the Valley Isle. The County of Maui includes four islands: Maui, Molokaʻi, Lānaʻi, and Kahoʻolawe. Named for the demigod Māui.

Main Hawaiian Islands

WahiLocation, Hawaiʻi Place Names (2002),

Eight major islands in the Hawaiian Archipelago: Hawaiʻi, Maui, Oʻahu, Kauaʻi, Molokaʻi, Lānaʻi, Niʻihau, and Kahoʻolawe. The remainder of the islands and shoals in the archipelago are called the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.

Nā LepiliTags: Hawaiʻi Maui Oʻahu Kauaʻi Molokaʻi Lānaʻi Niʻihau Kahoʻolawe

1. n., The flower of the ʻōhiʻa tree (Metrosideros macropus 🌐, Metrosideros collina 🌐 subsp. Metrosideros polymorpha 🌐); also the tree itself. The lehua is the flower of the island of Hawaiʻi, as designated in 1923 by the Territorial legislature; it is famous in song and tale. Figuratively, a warrior, beloved friend or relative, sweetheart, expert (see lehua #9). The plant has many forms, from tall trees to low shrubs, leaves round to narrow and blunt or pointed and smooth or woolly. The flowers are red, rarely salmon, pink, yellow, or white. The wood is hard, good for flooring and furniture, formerly used for images, spears, mallets. It grows abundantly in wet areas (see ex., ʻūpolu). It was believed that picking lehua blossoms would cause rain.

2. vs., Laden, as a lehua tree with beautiful blossoms.

  • Examples:
    • Ke hele lā ka papa ʻaina a ua aliʻi nei ā lehua, the feast table of this aforementioned chief was beautifully supplied.

3. n., Rainbow-colored mother-of-pearl shell used for fishing lure.

4. n., A variety of taro, used for red poi.

  • References:
    • TC 4.

5. n., Globe amaranth (Gomphrena globosa 🌐).

  • Also: lehua mau loa, lehua pepa, leihua.

6. n., A variety of yam; the stem has red wings and the tuber has light pinkish flesh.

  • References:
    • HP 168.

7. (Cap.) n., Name of the small island just west of Niʻihau. As the westernmost of the Hawaiian Islands (except for the Northwest Hawaiian Islands), Lehua is associated with a setting sun (see chant, kalakalaʻihi). In poetry, the extent of the Hawaiian Islands is shown by coupling Lehua Island and Haʻehaʻe and Kumukahi on East Hawaiʻi (see welo #2, welona). A breeze is named for this island.

8. Pas/imp. of lehu #1.

9. n., Expert, as in fishing.

Nā LepiliTags: flora food geography

kikino, Group of islands, archipelago.

  • Source:
    • Existing dictionary word
  • Examples:
    • Ka pae moku ʻo Kalolaina. Caroline Isles. Also: ka pae moku ʻo Karolina.
    • Ka pae moku ʻo Kenele. Canary Isles.
    • Ka pae moku ʻo Mākala. Marshall Islands. Also: Mākala, Mākala ʻAilana.
    • Ka pae moku ʻo Fakalana. Falkland Islands, Falklands.
  • References:

Twin

WahiLocation, Hawaiʻi Place Names (2002),

Islands, Kailua, Oʻahu. Two, or "twin," prominent islands off the east end of Lanikai Beach in Kailua. Also known as the Mokulua Islands.

Māʻalaea

WahiLocation, Hawaiʻi Place Names (2002),

1. Bay, beach, Māʻalaea, Maui. Māʻalaea Bay is an important part of the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary. Although humpbacks are seen throughout the islands, they concentrate in the waters between the four islands of Maui County, where they calve, nurse, and mate. Māʻalaea Beach is a narrow calcareous sand beach approximately 3 miles long and backed by low dunes at the head of the bay. The northeast end of the beach is also known as Sugar Beach. 2. Small boat harbor, Māʻalaea, Maui. Constructed in 1952. Facilities include eighty-nine berth/moorings, a ramp, a drydock, and a vessel washdown area. 3. Surf site, Māʻalaea, Maui. On the northeast side of the entrance channel to the small boat harbor. The steep, hollow, plunging waves here form one of the longest and fastest rides in Hawaiʻi and possibly in the world. Surfer Magazine (established in 1960) has rated it as one of the ten best waves in the world and the fastest-breaking right in the world. Also known as Māʻalaea Pipeline, Pipeline. 4. U.S. Coast Guard station. On the shore of the small boat harbor. 5. Beach, Hālawa, Molokaʻi. The westernmost of the two beaches in Hālawa Valley that is used as an anchorage and boat launching site. Lit., ocherous earth beginnings. Māʻalaea is a contracted form of Makaʻalaea.

Mokulau

WahiLocation, Hawaiʻi Place Names (2002),

Beach, islands, landing, point, Kaupō, Maui. Many small rock islands are located in the ocean off the cobblestone beach lining the north side of the point. Huialoha Church, constructed in 1857 on the otherwise barren point, has an active congregation. The ruins of Mokulau Landing are located across the bay from the church. Lit., many islands.

Mokes

WahiLocation, Hawaiʻi Place Names (2002),

1. Surfing, windsurf site, Mokulēʻia, Oʻahu. Surfing and windsurf sites that front Mokulēʻia Beach Park. "Mokes" is an abbreviation of Mokulēʻia. 2. Islands, Kailua, Oʻahu. Two islands off Wailea Point in Lanikai. "Mokes" is an abbreviation of Mokulua, the Hawaiian name for the two islands.

1. n., A species of fish (Xiphias gladius) haying the bones of the upper jaw consolidated to form an elongated sword-like process; a sword-fish.

2. n., A volcanic lava, spongy or cellular from bubbles of steam or gas which it contained during liquidity, used as a polishing-material; a pumice stone. Its porosity renders it so exceedingly light that when dry it floats readily on the surface of water, sinking only when thoroughly saturated. Owing to this property it is found very widely diffused over the ocean bed and is obtained in regions of active volcanoes, such as the Hawaiian islands, the Lipari Islands, etc.

Nā LepiliTags: fauna fish

Lānaʻi

WahiLocation, Hawaiʻi Place Names (2002),

1. Island. Lānaʻi is the sixth largest (140.6 square miles) of the eight major Hawaiian Islands and one of four islands in Maui County. It has a population of 3,193. The highest mountain on the island is Lānaʻi Hale with an elevation of 3,370 feet, and the pua kaunaʻoa (Cuscuta sandwichiana) is the emblem of the island. Lānaʻi's original nickname was the Pineapple Isle; another nickname is the Secluded Isle. 2. Look- out, Hawaiʻi Kai, Oʻahu. On Kalanianaʻole Highway east of Hanauma Bay, with a view of the island of Lānaʻi across the Kaiwi Channel. Lit., day [of] conquest.

Kahiko

/ KA-HI-KO / Haw to Eng, Andrews (1865),

s., The name of the first man upon the Hawaiian Islands according to some genealogies; ua hou ia mai, ma ka mookuauhau i kapaia Ololo, he kane ia kanaka mua loa, o Kahiko kona inoa, it is said again, in the genealogy called Ololo, that the very first inhabitant was a male, whose name was Kahiko. The question here discussed is whether the first person on the Islands was a man or woman. D. Malo, chap. 3,4.

kahiko

/ kă'-hī'-ko / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

1. n., The name of the first man upon the Hawaiian islands according to some genealogies: ua i hou ia mai, ma ka mookuauhau i kapaia Ololo, he kane ia kanaka mua loa, o Kahiko kona inoa, it is said again, in the genealogy called Ololo, that the very first inhabitant was a man whose name was Kahiko. The question here discussed is whether the first person on the islands was a man or woman. (D. Malo, chapters 3 and 4.)

2. n., An elderly person; an old man; elua mau mea kahiko, e kipakuia'na, e hele pela, two old men, they were being driven away. Syn: poohina.

Molokaʻi

WahiLocation, Hawaiʻi Place Names (2002),

1. Island. Molokaʻi is the fifth largest (260 square miles) of the eight major Hawaiian Islands and one of four islands in Maui County. It has a population of 7,404, many of whom are of Hawaiian ancestry. The highest mountain on the island is Kamakou, with an elevation of 4,970 feet, and the pua kukui flower is the emblem of the island. Molokaʻi's nickname is the Friendly Isle. 2. Light, Kalaupapa, Molokaʻi. Established in 1906 and automated in 1966. The 132-foot light tower was completed in 1909 and its base is approximately 100 feet above sea level. Also known as the Kalaupapa Light. 3. Reef, Papaʻi, Hawaiʻi. Reef bordering the channel into the beach at Papaʻi that was used as a canoe landing. 4. Reef, Hanalei, Kauaʻi. In Hanalei Bay off the mouth of Waiʻoli Stream. The reef is the site of a shipwreck, the Haʻaheo o Hawaiʻi, a historic ship that sank here in 1820. The ship was located in 1995 and excavated by a team led by Paul Johnston, the curator of Maritime History at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.

Ua.

  • References:

Nā LepiliTags: rain

s., A name of the south-west wind; also, the south wind.

2. Pleasant or good weather; also, the name of the rain accompanying a south wind; he ua kona, he ua nui loa ia. See names of various species of Konas, as Konahea, Konalani, &c.

3. Name of a division of an island belonging to several islands, as Hawaiʻi, Oʻahu, Kauaʻi and Molokaʻi, mostly on the west or south-west sides of the islands.

Nā LepiliTags: wind Hawaiʻi Oʻahu Kauaʻi Molokaʻi geography

Niʻihau

WahiLocation, Hawaiʻi Place Names (2002),
  1. Niʻihau is the seventh largest (69.5 square miles) of the eight major Hawaiian Islands and with Kauaʻi is one of two islands in Kauaʻi County. It has a populalion of 160, the majority of whom are of Hawaiian ancestry. The highest mountain on the island is Paniʻau with an elevation of 1,281 feet, and the pupu Niʻihau, or Niʻihau shell, is the emblem of the island. Niʻihau's nickname is the Hawaiian Island. The island is privately owned and operated by the Robinson family as a sheep and cattle ranch. Residents there produce charcoal for commercial sale, and Niʻihau Ranch runs a small hunting business, flying hunters to the island by helicopter to shoot trophy sheep and boars. Residents also collect the prized Niʻihau shells and string them into leis for commercial sale. Also known as the Forbidden Island.
  2. Dive site, north shore, Niʻihau. Dive tour operators from Kauaʻi dive at several sites that they call “Niʻihau” between the north point of the island and Lehua Island.

Nā LepiliTags: Niʻihau Kauaʻi

kikino Group of islands, archipelago. Dic. Also pae moku. See pae moku. Ka pae ʻāina ʻo ʻAleuta. Aleutian Islands.

Kalamaʻula

WahiLocation, Hawaiʻi Place Names (2002),

Shore, Kalamaʻula, Molokaʻi. In 1920 Congress passed the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act to provide public lands for Hawaiians who were "not less than one-half part of the blood of the races inhabiting the Hawaiian Islands previous to 1778." Provisions were made for a commission to administer the lands, and in 1925 Kalamaʻula became the first Hawaiian homestead subdivision in the islands. Among the first residents there were Marcelus and Emma Kala Dudoit. Fronting their home was a large stone that had a natural etching of a sun and five rays, and it was from this stone called Kalamaʻula that the area took its name. Mrs. Dudoit wrote a song entitled "Kalamaʻula" in honor of her home. The song is now a Hawaiian falsetto standard. Literally, the red torch.

Nā LepiliTags: Molokaʻi

Hawaiʻi

WahiLocation, Hawaiʻi Place Names (2002),

Hawaiʻi is the largest of the eight major Hawaiian Islands (4,028 square miles). It has a population of 148,677. The highest mountain on the island is Mauna Kea, with an elevation of 13,796 feet, and the pua lehua (Metrosideros polymorpha) is the emblem of the island. Hawaiʻi's nickname is the Orchid Isle; it is also called the Big Island because it is twice the combined size of the other seven islands. The state takes its name from this island.

n., Group of islands, archipelago. Literally, cluster of islands.

Paʻalaea

WahiLocation, Hawaiʻi Place Names (2002),

Island (.16 acres, 40 feet high), North Kohala, Hawaiʻi. One of three islands, including Mokupuku and Paoakalani, off Honokeʻa Valley on the north side of the Kohala Mountains. The islands are sea stacks—rocks isolated from the main island by erosion.

Nā LepiliTags: Hawaiʻi

Nihoa

WahiLocation, Place Names of Hawaiʻi (1974),

Coastal land section, Kaunakakai qd., north Molokaʻi. (Summers 196.) Waterfront area in downtown Honolulu formerly owned by Ka-ʻahu-manu and named by her in honor of her visit to Nihoa Island (Ii 166). The island is the highest of the Northwestern (Leeward) Hawaiian Islands and the one nearest the main islands. It has a maximum elevation of 910 feet and an approximate area of 0.25 square miles. Discovered by Captain Douglas of the British ship Iphigenia on March 19, 1789, it was annexed to Hawaiʻi in 1898 and is now a part of the City and County of Honolulu. Kenneth P. Emory (1928) tells of 66 house sites on the island. Small stone images from there are in the Bishop Museum. The famous chant, "Ka Wai a Kāne," mentions the island (UL 257-259). (Bryan, 1942: 167-170; PH X-XII; RC 253.) See Mau-loku. Lit., firmly set.

Ka-huku

WahiLocation, Place Names of Hawaiʻi (1974),

Land sections, Honomū qd.; ranch, Honu-ʻapo qd., Kaʻū, Hawaiʻi. Ka-huku Pali is a fault scarp 2.5 miles northwest of South Point; it has a maximum height of about 600 feet, extends inland about 10 miles, and can be traced out to sea 18 miles (Macdonald and Abbott 41). In Kaʻū two young chiefs raced with Pele on hōlua sleds but became afraid and refused to race with her when they discovered who she was; Pele chased them, devastating the once fertile area and creating Nā-puʻu-a-Pele (the hills of Pele). (Westervelt, 1963:23–26.) Village, land division, northernmost point, golf course, ranch, schools, forest reserve, and surfing beach (Finney, 1959a:108), Oʻahu. The point here was cut off from the island by Lono-ka-ʻeho (Lono the stone), a chief with eight stone foreheads (see Ka-lae-o-Kahipa). A lone rock here, Kū's Rock Spring, was said to give forth pure spring water (Sterling and Summers 4:53; see Wai-pahu). Oʻahu was believed to have consisted of two islands ruled by a brother and sister who locked fingers to pull the islands together. They did this at a pool called Pō-lou, perhaps a shortening of Pou-lou (hooked post). (Sterling and Summers 4:49–50a.) Lit., the projection.

iʻoa Mariana. Eng. Ka pae moku ʻo Mariana. Mariana Islands. Ka pae moku ʻo Mariana ʻĀkau. Northern Mariana Islands.

Mokuhoʻoniki

WahiLocation, Hawaiʻi Place Names (2002),

Dive site, island (10.6 acres, 203 feet high), Moakea, Molokaʻi. Part of the Hawaiʻi Seabird Sanctuary. One of two islands that were built by a posterosional eruption and eventually divided into two islands by wave erosion. Kanahā is the second island. Mokuhoʻoniki was used as a bombing target by the military until 1958 when Molokaʻi residents' complaints about noise and concerns about safety were finally heeded. The dive site off the island includes pinnacles and dropoffs at 30 to 100 feet. Also known as Elephant Rock. Lit., pinch island (as a lover pinches).

Paoakalani

WahiLocation, Hawaiʻi Place Names (2002),

Island, North Kohala, Hawaiʻi. Part of the Hawaiʻi State Seabird Sanctuary. One of three islands, including Mokupuku and Paʻalaea, off Honokeʻa Valley. The islands are sea stacks—rocks isolated from the main island by erosion. Literally, the royal perfume.

Nā LepiliTags: Hawaiʻi

s. Eng. The Hawaiian pronunciation for musquito or musketo. A stinging fly; mai noho hoi a aki wale aku e like me na makika nahu kolohe. NOTE.— Musketoes were first brought to the islands in 1823. A ship lying in the roads at Lahaina, on being cleared of vermin by smoke, a light breeze brought some musketoes ashore. They are now numerous and troublesome on the leeward sides of all the islands.

makika

/ mā'-kī'-ka / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

1. n., [Eng.] A mosquito; a stinging fly; mai noho hoi a aki wale aku e like me na makika nahu kolohe. (Mosquitoes were first brought to the islands in 1823. A ship lying in the roads at Lahaina was being cleared of vermin by smoke, and a light breeze brought some mosquitoes ashore. They are now numerous and troublesome on the leeward sides of all the islands.)

2. n., A plant disease which attacks the sweet potato.

Nā LepiliTags: fauna insects ʻuala

Captain Cook

WahiLocation, Hawaiʻi Place Names (2002),

Monument, Kaʻawaloa, Hawaiʻi. Monument erected at Kaʻawaloa on the north side Kealakekua Bay at the site where Captain James Cook was killed. The monument is a 27-foot white obelisk surrounded by twelve metal posts linked by chains. The plaque on the obelisk reads: “In memory of the great circumnavigator Captain James Cook, R.N., who discovered these islands on the 18th day of January AD 1778 and fell near this spot on the 14th day of February AD 1779. This monument was erected in November AD 1874 by some of his fellow countrymen.” A second plaque at the jetty fronting the monument reads: “The Commonwealth of Australia in memory of Captain James Cook, R.N., the discoverer of both Australia and these islands erected this jetty.” A third plaque at the site reads: “In commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the arrival in the Pacific Ocean of Captain James Cook, R.N., on his voyage of discovery 1768-1771 in the bark Endeavor. Presented by Swedish American Line on the occasion of a visit by M.S. Kungsholm to Kealakekua Bay, April 1st, 1969.”

Nā LepiliTags: Hawaiʻi

Kure

WahiLocation, Place Names of Hawaiʻi (1974),

Atoll 1,400 miles northwest of Honolulu, most distant of the Northwestern (Leeward) Hawaiian Islands, an oval atoll with maximum diameter of 6 miles. Within the lagoon are three sand islands no more than 20 feet high and with a total area of about 0.47 square miles. It was discovered by a Russian navigator (for whom it is named), annexed to the Hawaiian Kingdom in 1886, and acquired by the United States in 1898; it is now a part of the City and County of Honolulu. At least four ships have been wrecked on the reef. The name is also spelled Cure. (Bryan 204–207.)

Honokeʻa

WahiLocation, Hawaiʻi Place Names (2002),

Bay, beach, valley, North Kohala, Hawaiʻi. Honokeʻa Valley is one of seven isolated coastal valleys on the north side of Kohala Mountain. Small deposits of black sand lie behind the boulder beach that fronts the valley. Larger deposits of black sand front the boulder beach on the ocean bottom. The black sand is material eroded and transported to the shore by Honokeʻa Stream. The valley marks the eastern edge of the district of Kohala. Three islands lie offshore: Paʻalaea, Paoa- kalani, and Mokupuku. They are also known collectively as Nāmoku, "the islands." Lit., volcanic rock bay.

Mokupuku

WahiLocation, Hawaiʻi Place Names (2002),

Island (1.5 acres, 40 feet high), North Kohala, Hawaiʻi. Part of the Hawaiʻi State Seabird Sanctuary. One of three islands off Honokeʻā Valley on the north side of the Kohala Mountains. The islands are sea stacks—rocks isolated from the main island by erosion. The island has a large hole through it above sea level. Lit., contracted island.

Moku Nui

WahiLocation, Hawaiʻi Place Names (2002),

1. Island (13 acres), Kailua, Oʻahu. Larger of the two Mokulua Islands off Wailea Point in Lanikai. Also known as Big Moke, Two Humps. 2. Island, Pearl Harbor, Oʻahu. Larger of two small rock islands off Ford Island near the USS Arizona Memorial. Lit., large island.

iʻoa, Society, as in Society Islands.

  • Source:
    • Shortened tōtaiete (Tahitian).
  • Examples:
    • Ka pae moku ʻo Taiete. Society Islands.

Nā LepiliTags: geography

A group of islands, such as the Hawaiian islands (DM) (PE).

Hawaiian thrush (Phaeornis obscura obscura). Several species of this bird were known throughout the islands by the common name ʻāmaui, but were also known by a second Hawaiian name on individual islands. Only Oʻahu was limited to the name ʻāmaui. The bird was noted for its fine singing. Some ʻāmaui still live on Hawaiʻi island, but it is extinct or on the endangered list elsewhere.

Dark-rumped petrel (Pterodroma phaeopygia sandwichen- sis), endemic to the main islands of Hawaiʻi. Mongooses have joined pigs and hogs in wiping out this bird on several islands. Native Hawaiians also eliminated their share, killing the bird for food. The meat of the young was reserved for the chiefs and was kapu to commoners. The petrel is almost extinct. Also called ʻuwaʻu, waʻu.

s. Eng. a musketoe, a stinging fly. Note, these were first brought to the islands in 1823. A ship Tying in the roads at Lahaina, on being cleared of the vermin by smoke, a light wind blew them ashore. They are now numerous and troublesome on the leeward side of all the islands.

Hilo, the city and district (also the name of a famous Polynesian navigator and of the first night of the new moon), perhaps mentioned in chant and saying more than any other single place in the Hawaiian Islands: see ʻAʻala honua, hālau #1, holowaʻa #1, kaʻele #1, kinai #2, laumeke, ʻōiwi #2, poʻi #1, umauma, rain, storm, UL 104. All of these refer to rain and its rich symbolism.

  • Examples:
    • Exhausted by the many streams of Hilo, many hills, countless descents … cliffs of windward the upright cliffs of Hilo (PH 32), pau ke aho i ke kahawai lau o Hilo, he lau ka puʻu, he mano ka ihona æ he pali no Koʻolau kā Hilo pali kū (of trial and hardship).
    • Voice with many tears of Hilo (FS 225), ka leo waimaka nui o Hilo.

Nā LepiliTags: geography

s., Name of a ship formerly at the islands; no ka naaupo, ua kapaia aku e makou ka moku he anuu. Lam. Haw. 11:4, 3.

Poʻipū

WahiLocation, Hawaiʻi Place Names (2002),

Beach, beach park, snorkeling site, windsurf site, Poʻipū, Kauaʻi. Calcareous sand beach between Poʻipū Beach Park to the east and the Sheraton Kauaʻi Resort to the west. Poʻipū Beach Park is the most popular beach park on the island's south shore. Nukumoi Point in the beach park is an example of a tombolo, a sandbar that joins two islands. The snorkeling site is off the west end of the beach park, and the windsurf site is off the west end of the beach near the Sheraton.

  • Literally, completely overcast or crashing [as waves].

Nā LepiliTags: Kauaʻi

s., Name of a sea breeze at Lahaina and some other places on the islands.

Nā LepiliTags: wind Maui

1. n., The kava (Piper methysticum 🌐), a shrub 1.2 to 3.5 meters tall with green jointed stems and heart-shaped leaves, native to Pacific islands, the root being the source of a narcotic drink of the same name used in ceremonies (Neal 291), prepared formerly by chewing, later by pounding. The comminuted particles were mixed with water and strained. When drunk to excess it caused drowsiness and, rarely, scaliness of the skin and bloodshot eyes. Kava was also used medicinally.

  • Examples:
    • Kupu ʻawa (FS 57), to perform ceremony of offering kava to the gods [an unusual reference, as kava was not taken ceremonially, as in Samoa].
    • ʻAwa kau lāʻau, the tree-resting kava, growing in tree crotches and famous in poetry concerning Puna, Hawaiʻi.
  • References:
    • PPN kawa.

2. vs., Sour, bitter, poisonous.

  • Examples:
    • ʻAwa ka ʻupena, the net is sour [of a net into which fish will not enter].
    • ʻAwa ke au, how bitter the gall [a sour disposition].
  • References:
    • PPN kakawa, PCP kawa.

3. n., Cold mountain rain, fog, mist; to rain or mist. Figuratively, tragic misfortune or ordeal; in PH this word is preceded by ke and may refer to volcanic eruption: Uwē au, puni ʻā i ke ʻawa (PH 193), I weep, surrounded by lava in the downpour.

  • Examples:
    • ʻO ka uahi noe lehua, ʻo ke ʻawa nui i ka mauna (PH 205), the lehua mist smoke, the great outburst on the mountain.

4. n., A premature infant, believed caused by a “sour” condition of the mother.

5. n., A kind of bitter seaweed.

Nā LepiliTags: kava medicine Hawaiʻi rain health flora limu epithets preceded by ke

1. n., The breadfruit tree (Artocarpus incisa) and its fruit. The fruit is good for food, the timber for building, for canoes, etc. It has accompanied the Poly nesians in all climates which allow the tree to live. The ulu or breadfruit has only one variety in the Hawaiian Islands, but more than 24 varieties in the South Seas. The milky sap of the tree is used by the Hawaiians for bird lime, and is chewed by the boys and girls in Samoa.

2. n., A round smooth stone used in a game called maika (bowling). Also called olohu and ulumaika.

3. n., The stick used in spreading the hot stones of the imu, oven, on which food is cooked.

Nā LepiliTags: ʻulu

Pāpaʻi

WahiLocation, Hawaiʻi Place Names (2002),

Beach, Puna, Hawaiʻi. Narrow, crescent black and green sand beach fronting a coconut grove and the ruins of the former fishing village of Pāpaʻi. It was here in 1793 that King Kamehameha I lead a small raiding party in an attack on the village. Leading his warriors, Kamehameha leaped out of his canoe and gave chase to several fishermen, but as he ran, he stepped in a crevice in the lava, catching his foot. One of the fishermen picked up a canoe paddle and broke it over Kamehameha's head. By this time other men from the village were arming themselves and were coming to assist, so Kamehameha's warriors freed him, and they retreated. Years later, after Kamehameha had successfully united all the Hawaiian Islands, he visited the town of Hilo. Members of his retinue, still incensed that a commoner had struck the king and had not been punished, rounded up the fishermen at Pāpaʻi who had attacked Kamehameha, brought them before the king, and demanded their execution. Kamehameha answered these demands with a pardon in the form of the now legendary decree known as the Law of the Splintered Paddle.

A sign of the plural number; as, keia pae aina or keia pae moku, these islands. Gram. § 86 and 92.

Kāneʻohe

WahiLocation, Hawaiʻi Place Names (2002),
  1. Bay, Kāneʻohe, Oʻahu. Largest sheltered bay in the Hawaiian Islands and one of the finest estuaries in the state. It lies between Kualoa Point and Mōkapu Peninsula.
  2. Bay offshore mooring area, Kāneʻohe, Oʻahu. There are sixty-six moorings in the southwestern corner of the bay.
  3. Beach park (1.1 acres), Kāneʻohe, Oʻahu. Small landscaped park that borders the mudflats of Kāneʻohe Bay at the end of Waikalua Road. Also known as Nāonealaʻa.
  4. Yacht club, Kāneʻohe, Oʻahu. Private recreation facility that includes 190 slips, 3 visitor slips, and dry mooring.

Literally, bamboo husband. According to legend, a woman compared her husband's cruelty to the cutting edge of a bamboo knife.

Nā LepiliTags: Oʻahu

s., A territory; district of country; generally compounded with other qualifying words; as, auakua, a desert, a place of gods, ghosts, &c. See auakua. Aukanaka, an inhabited country; aupuni, a large region, &c. NOTE.—Au is the term representing all places where food grows; as kaha represents such places as are on or near the shore where food does not grow. This applies mostly to the leeward side of the islands.

1. nvs., Coral, coral head.

  • Examples:
    • Ke koʻa mokumoku o Heʻeia, the broken coral beds of Heʻeia [an expression used in songs and chants referring to Heʻeia, Oʻahu].
  • References:

2. n., Fishing grounds, usually identified by lining up with marks on shore.

3. n., Shrine, often consisting of circular piles of coral or stone, built along the shore or by ponds or streams, used in ceremonies as to make fish multiply; also built on bird islands, and used in ceremonies to make birds multiply.

Nā LepiliTags: fauna

hoʻonākū

/ hoʻo.nā.kū / Haw to Eng, Pukui-Elbert (1986),

To suffer gas pains.

  • Examples:
    • Hoʻonākū nā mauna, kaʻahē nā mokupuni (birth chant for Kamamalu), the mountains are in distress, the islands gasp for breath.

Nā LepiliTags: health

1. nvt. Covering, cover, veil, film, lid, solid tattooing, tent (Puk 26.12); to cover, spread over, engulf, conceal, overwhelm; to don, as a feather cloak. Figuratively, to deceive, hide the truth.

  • Examples:
    • Kākau uhi, to tattoo solidly.
    • Uhi mai ka lani pō, the night sky spreads forth [ignorance].
    • Ua uhi ʻia kō lāua mau manaʻo i ke aloha (For. 4:67), their thoughts were overwhelmed with love.
    • Uhi i ka moe, to make a bed.
  • References:
    • PPN ʻufi.

2. n. Large, bluish-brown birthmark.

3. n. The yam (Dioscorea alata), from southeast Asia, a climber with square stems, heart-shaped leaves, and large, edible, underground tubers. The plant is widely distributed through islands of the Pacific, where it is commonly grown for food. In the past botanists have applied the name uhi incorrectly to the hoi kuahiwi.

  • References:
    • HP 166–172, Neal 230.
    • PPN ʻufi.

4. n. Mother-of-pearl bivalve, mother-of-pearl shank.

  • References:
    • PPN ʻufi.

5. n. Turtle shell piece used for scraping olonā.

6. n. Mark made by the gall of raw pūpū ʻawa (a shellfish) on tapa or on the skin as an ornament.

  • References:
    • PCP u(f,s)i.

Nā LepiliTags: flora food uhi fauna tapa

s. A blossom; a flower; a carving in imitation of a flower. Puk. 25:31.

2. The upper part of the sugar-cane when it blossoms, as pua ko, and which was used for arrows, and in modern times by children in play, as hoolei pua; hence,

3. The name of a play or game.

4. An arrow for shooting in connection with the kakaka or bow.

5. A bundle of sticks; a sheaf of grain or grass. Kin. 37:7.

6. Posterity; descendants. Laieik. 181. Children; a household. Puk. 19:3.

7. A flock; a herd, as of cattle or goats; he pua kao; he pua hipa; he pua bipi; a school of fish; he pua anae.

8. A species of small fish; he pua amaama.

9. The name of a tree found at Kapua on Hawaii and other islands; the wood is very hard.

10. The name applied to a deranged person.

11. A kind of deity supposed to reside in some person who was called Kahupua and who had power to send Pua to do injury to others. He akuapua was applied to some kinds of sickness inducing delirium, a sickness supposed to be sent by some individual in anger.

12. The name of a goddess, the sister of Kalaipahoa. She came with him and Kapo from a foreign country, and they entered certain trees.

13. The name of the kind of hook used in taking turtles or the ea.

1. n., Name of one of the Hawaiian islands.

  • References:
    • Cf. Māui, the demigod.

2. (Not cap.) n., A variety of sweet potato.

Nā LepiliTags: Maui geography flora food

s. Name of one of the Hawaiian Islands.

Maui (mă'u-i), n.

Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

Name of one of the Hawaiian islands.

Maui

WahiLocation, Place Names of Hawaiʻi (1974),

Second largest island in the Hawaiian group, 48 miles long, 26 miles wide, with an area of 728 square miles and a population in 1970 of 38,691. Wai-luku is the major town and county seat. Maui High School is in Ka-hului. The county includes Maui, Lā-naʻi, Ka-hoʻolawe, and Molokaʻi islands. Epithet: Maui o Kama, Maui of Kama (a famous ancient chief, also called Kama-lālā-walu). The island was named for the demigod Māui (see Appendix 3).

aupuni

/ AU-PU-NI / Haw to Eng, Andrews (1865),

v., To be in an undisturbed state; to be in a state of peace and quietness, as a kingdom.

2. To exist or be known as a kingdom; ua aupuni keia pae aina, these islands are at peace.

3. To become a kingdom. Ezek. 16:13.

Aupuni (ă'u-pū'-ni), v.

Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

1. To exist or be known as a kingdom: ua aupuni keia pae aina, these islands are at peace.

2. To become a kingdom or republic.

n., Hawaiian duck (Anas wyvilliana 🌐).

  • Formerly on all main islands except Lānaʻi and Kahoʻolawe; in 1976 common only on Kauaʻi; birds raised in capitivity and released have been seen on Oʻahu and Hawaiʻi; considered endangered in 1978.
  • Koloa birds protected a legendary blind giant, Imaikalani, and quacked to warn him from which side he might expect an attack (FS 169).
  • References:
    • PPN toloa.

Nā LepiliTags: fauna birds

Kōloa

/ Kō-loa / WahiLocation, Place Names of Hawaiʻi (1974),
  1. Beach at Punaluʻu, Kaʻū, Hawaiʻi, where birth stones (ʻiliʻili hānau) were said to reproduce.
  2. Town, park, land division, elementary school, district, reservoir, landing, and stream, southeast Kauaʻi. (For. Sel. 108.) According to one account, the district was named for a steep rock called Paliokōloa. The first successful sugar plantation in the Islands was started here in 1835. It became a part of Grove Farm in 1948.
  • References:
    • See Waitā.

Nā LepiliTags: Hawaiʻi Kaʻū Kauaʻi

1. n. Head, summit, head or director of an organization, executive, principal; end, as of a rope, leaf, pole, cane, kōnane board; head of a penis or boil; headline, heading, title; father (see poʻo lua, poʻo ʻole); hair in such expressions as poʻo hina, poʻo kea (preceded by ke). See saying, pau #1. Poʻo maiʻa, upper part of a banana stalk. Ke poʻo o nā moku, the head of the islands [Hawaiʻi]. Nā poʻo ʻoihana, executive departments. ʻAʻohe mea nāna e paʻi i ke poʻo, no one can slap his head [he has no superior, especially in knowledge]. Moe poʻo ā hiʻu, to lie from head to tail [in trouble]. hoʻo.poʻo To appoint a head or leader; to go ahead; to be brave. Lele hoʻopoʻo aʻela ka ua (For. 6:240), the rain falls headlong. (PEP ʻupoko.)

2. n. A whole note (music). Cf. poʻoʻele, poʻolima, poʻomana, poʻomanakolu, poʻomanalua.

3. nvt. Depression, cavity; to dip, scoop, hollow out, dub, erode, dig; to splash, as water by scooping the base of the palm; to make a squeaky sound by placing one hand against the armpit of the opposite arm, and pressing that arm against the hand; to make a noise by snapping the lips with the fingers. Cf. kapoʻo, napoʻo. hoʻo.poʻo To dig, dub out. (PPN poko.)

kauoha

/ KAU-O-HA / Haw to Eng, Andrews (1865),

v., To give a dying charge; to make a bequest or a parting charge. Isa. 38:1. Hence, to make a will. NOTE.—Ancient wills, of course, were verbal; now, by law, they must be written.

2. To give a charge on any subject; to command; to put in charge or trust, as one dying or going away; kauoha ae la oia (o Kamehameha) ia Kauikeaouli e noho is alii no Hawaiʻi nei, he (Kamehameha) gave in charge to Kauikeaouli to reign as king over the Hawaiian Islands.

3. To commit into the hands of another. 1 Pet. 4:19.

4. To give orders concerning a person or thing. Kin. 12:20.

5. To commit to paper, i.e., to write down; no laila, ke kauoha aku nei au i koʻu manaʻo ma kēia palapala, i ʻike ʻoe i koʻu manaʻo.

Kauoha (kă'u-ō'-ha), v.

Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

1. To give a dying charge; to make a bequest or a parting charge; hence, to make a will. (Ancient wills, of course, were verbal.)

2. To give a charge on any subject; to command; to put in charge, as one dying or going away: kauoha ae la oia (o Kamehameha) ia Kauikeaouli e noho i alii no Hawaii nei; he (Kamehameha) gave in charge to Kauikeaouli to reign as king over the Hawaiian islands.

3. To commit into the hands of another.

4. To give orders concerning a person or thing.

5. To write down; nolaila, ke kauoha aku nei au i ko'u manao ma keia palapala, i ike oe i ko'u manao.

s. Name of a great pestilence which swept over the islands while Kamehameha I. was living on Oahu about 1807. Great multitudes were swept off. The name okuu was given to it because the people okuu, wale aku no i ka uhane, i. e., dismissed freely their souls and died. See Kuu, to let go.

Okuu (ō'-ku'u), n.

Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

[Kuu, to let go; okuu, to sit up.] A pestilence which swept over the islands while Kamehameha I. was living on Oahu about 1807. Multitudes perished. Okuu wale aku no i ka uhane; the people dismissed freely their souls and died.

OKU 483 OLA

Hilu (hī'-lu), n.

Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

Two species of coral reef fishes (Anampses cuvier and Julis eydouxii). Common. Among the most brilliantly marked of the many bright colored fishes seen among the Hawaiian islands.

n., Name of the most populous of the Hawaiian Islands and the seat of Honolulu. The name has no meaning (see Pukui, Elbert, and Mookini; 1975, 262).

  • References:
    • See saying kau poʻohiwi, and epithets, Oʻahu (English-Hawaiian).

Nā LepiliTags: Oʻahu geography

Oʻahu

/ O-ă'-hu / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

n., Name of one of the Hawaiian islands. (The word evidently refers to Ouahou. a tract in Borneo; and to Ouadju. a state in Central Celebes, whose inhabitants are kindred to the Pacific Polynesians. Pol. Race. Fornander. Vol. 1, chap. 8.)

Nā LepiliTags: Oʻahu

Oʻahu

WahiLocation, Place Names of Hawaiʻi (1974),

Most populous of the Hawaiian Islands, 40 miles long, 26 miles wide, with an area of 608 square miles and a 1970 population of 768,561. Honolulu is the major city and State capital. See Appendix 6.8 for a refutation of a meaning often quoted, 'gathering place'. Epithets: Oʻahu o Kākuhihewa, Oʻahu of Kākuhihewa (an ancient chief); Oʻahu a Lua, Oʻahu [child] of Lua (Lua slept with Papa after Papa became angry about husband Wākea's infidelity; Lua gave birth to Oʻahu; HM 302).

Nā LepiliTags: Oʻahu

Oʻahu

WahiLocation, Hawaiʻi Place Names (2002),

Oʻahu is the third largest (597.1 square miles) of the eight major Hawaiian islands. It has a populalion of 876,156 (U.S. Census figures for 2000 indicate that Oʻahu's population makes up 72.3 percent of the state's total of 1,211,537 residents). The highest mountain on the island is Kaʻala with an elevation of 4,003 feet, and the pua ʻilima (Sida fallax) is the emblem of the island. Oʻahu's nickname is the Gathering Place. The island of Oʻahu is also known as the County of Honolulu.

Nā LepiliTags: Oʻahu

Bird

WahiLocation, Hawaiʻi Place Names (2002),

1. Cave, Kalaupapa, Molokaʻi. Sea cave on the north side of the peninsula. Noddy terns nest here. Also known as Ananoio. 2. Island, Keʻanae, Maui. One of two islands near Pauwalu Point. It is the only place on Maui where ʻiwa, or frigate birds, land. Also known as Mokumana. 3. Island, Kailua, Oʻahu. Solitary island at the north end of Kailua Bay that is part of the Hawaiʻi State Seabird Sanctuary. Parts of the island are covered with white guano deposited by roosting seabirds. The guano is visible from a distance and is the origin of the island's name. Also known as Black Rock, Mokolea Island.

s. Name of a species of fish, smooth, round; the bonito; the name of one of the two fish that accompanied Pili in his voyage to these islands; aku helped paddle (haluku) the canoe, and opelu calmed the winds when too strong. D. Malo 4:13. See OPELU.

Maile (mă'i-le), n.

Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

1. A vine with green odoriferous leaves, of which wreaths are made; (Alyxia olivaeformis). Found in all the islands of the group in the woods of the low and middle regions.

2. The rod used in playing puhenehene and other games. (Laieik. p. 114.) Also called mailepuhenehene.

3. The bow or piece securing an ox's neck to the yoke.

MAI 399 MAK

adj. pron., For neia or keia, this. No ka la auhau a ke alii nona nei noho ana ma Hawaii huipuia nei, for the tax day of the chief who sits now (as king) over these united Hawaiian (Islands.) E like me nei hana a ke kula nui, like this exercise of the high school.

Nā LepiliTags: grammar

Opule (o-pu'-le), n.

Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

A spotted fish (Anampses cuvier), common about the coral reefs. Also called hilu. One of the most brilliantly marked of the many bright colored fishes seen among the Hawaiian islands.

Limu, lī-. See Haw.-Eng. entries and the entries that follow them for various kinds. Limu and lī- are sometimes omitted. Some names vary according to islands. See lists below, also moss, scum, sea lettuce, vagabond. Ball of seaweed, as sold for food, pōpō limu; to gather seaweed, ʻaku limu.

Common edible seaweeds (following Abbott and Williamson; var. names are in parentheses, but see Haw.-Eng. entries for other names): ʻakiʻaki (kōʻeleʻele), ʻeleʻele, huluhulu waena (pakele-a-waʻa), limu kala, limu kohu (līpehe, līpehu, līpaʻakai), līpahapaha (pahapaha, pāpahapaha, līpaha, pālahalana, pakaiea, ʻīliohaʻa), līpeʻepeʻe, līpoa, manauea, māneʻoneʻo, paheʻe (pāheʻeheʻe, limu lūʻau), wawaeʻiole (ʻaʻala, ʻaʻalaʻula, ʻalaʻula).

Less common seaweeds (alternate names are in parentheses; see also Haw.-Eng, entries beginning limu and lī-): ʻākaʻakoʻa, alani, ʻānapanapa (limu loloa), ʻāpiʻipiʻi, ʻāʻula (hāʻula?), ʻawa, ʻāweʻaweʻa, ʻāweoweo, ʻeloʻelo (pīpīlani), hāwane, hinaʻula, hoʻonunu, huʻahuʻakai, hūai, huihui, huihui maka liʻi, hulu ʻiʻi, hulu ʻīlio (hulu, hulu pāhuluhulu, ʻīlio, nahawele, pūhuluhulu), hulu manu (ʻai-a-ka-honu, hulu moa, līmoa), huna (hunehune), huna pakēpakē, hūpēkohola, kāʻapeʻape, kāʻele, kāhili, kaunoʻa, kaupau, kāwelu, kihe (akuila), kīkalamoa (kīkala), kīkī, kilihune, kōʻeleʻele (kōʻele, ʻāwikiwiki, ʻēkahakaha, limu-uaua-loli, nei), lauoho-o-Pele, lelepo, lepe-o-Hina (lehelehe-ʻīlio, lepelepe-o-Hina), leponalo, likolehua, lupe, maka, makaloa, mākole, makua-o-ka-limu-kohu, manamana-ʻula, māwaewae-kilihune, moʻopuna-a-ka-līpoa (aupūpū), naio, nakeke, nane, nanea, nanoʻo, nanue (nenue), nē, nuʻa, ʻōhelo-huihui, ʻōhiʻohiʻo, ʻōhune, ʻōkala, ʻōmaʻomaʻo, oneone, ʻoʻolu, ʻopiʻopi, pahapaha-o-Polihale, pahapaha-wai, pākalakala, pakelo, pakēpakē, pakūpakū, pala, pala pōhaku, pala ʻula, pale wāwae, paninikū, pānohonoho, pānoʻonoʻo, pāpaʻakea, pāʻū-o-Hiʻiaka, pehu, pepe-o-Hina, pīlali, pilikoʻa, pohāpohā (pohā), popohe-Makaliʻi, puakī, pūhā, pūkoʻakoʻa, pūʻula, ʻūnoko, wāwahi-waʻa, weluwelu.

līpoa

/ lī.poa / Haw to Eng, Pukui-Elbert (1986),

1. n., Bladelike, branched, brown seaweeds (Dictyopteris plagiogramma and D. australis) with conspicuous midrib on blade, unique aroma and flavor; highly prized on all islands.

2. n., Same as līpoa kuahiwi.

Nā LepiliTags: flora limu food

s., The wife of Akea or Wakea, the fabled mother of the Islands and of men on them. See Opapa. Na Papa ka haku akea o Lono.

Nā LepiliTags: religion

1. n., A word applied in general to any flat surface.

2. n., A rank, class, order, sect or group.

3. n., The fabled mother of the islands and of their first inhabitants. She was the wife of Akea or Wakea.

4. n., A certain class of Kamehameha's laws; prohibitory laws.

(air movement). Makani (for fig. meanings and types of winds, see Haw.-Eng. entry and entries that follow it).

  • References:

Nā LepiliTags: wind

iʻoa Solomon (Islands). Eng.

n.

1. The tropic or boatswain bird, particularly the white-tailed tropic bird (Phaethon lepturus dorotheae), which inhabits cliffs of the high islands. The red-tailed tropic bird (P. rubricauda rothschildi) is koaʻe ʻula; the white is koaʻe kea. Ka pali lele koaʻe, cliff [where] tropic birds fly. (PPN tawake.)

2. A variety of banana. (Neal 249.) Also aʻeaʻe and manini.

3. A taro; varieties are qualified by the colors ʻeleʻele, keʻokeʻo, ʻulaʻula.

4. A snapper, probably Etelis carbunculus, an important commercial fish also known as onaga (Japanese).

5. A variety of sweet potato.

Lei (for various kinds, see Haw.-Eng. entry and entries that follow it).

Nā LepiliTags: lei

s. A bower; a shed; a piazza; a porch. Ezek. 40:7. A booth. Iona 4:5.

2. Name of one of the Hawaiian Islands west of Maui.

3. A pain or swelling on the back; a humpbacked person. See NANAI. NOTE.—The hump gives name to the island.

mākala

/ mā.kala / Haw to Eng, Pukui-Elbert (1986),

1. n., Myrtle.

  • Source:
    • English.

2. n., Marshal.

  • Source:
    • English.

(Cap.) n., Marshall (Islands).

  • Source:
    • English

Nā LepiliTags: names geography

iʻoa, Marshall Islands; Marshallese.

  • Source:
    • Existing dictionary word

Nā LepiliTags: geography

s. Sticky mud; adhesive dirt; hard mud; a whitish clay of the Islands; clay mortar. Puk. 1:14.

Palolo (pā'-lŏ'-lo), n.

Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

1. Sticky mud; adhesive earth; hard mud; a whitish clay of the islands; clay mortar.

2. A lie; a deception; false information.

Kehena

WahiLocation, Place Names of Hawaiʻi (1974),

Land division, Kalapana qd., Hawaiʻi, the birthplace of the Reverend J.W. Kanoa, a man of chiefly rank and the first Hawaiian missionary to the Gilbert Islands. Literally, place for refuse.

Nā LepiliTags: Hawaiʻi

Kaʻū

WahiLocation, Place Names of Hawaiʻi (1974),
  1. District, desert, elementary and high school, trail, and peak (2,082 feet high), Hawaiʻi. Poetic: Kaʻū kua makani and UL 65. (For sayings, see Appendix 8.1.) See Kaʻūloa. Kaʻū is an ancient name, with cognates in Samoa (Taʻū) and Mortlock Islands (Takuu): see Appendix 9.
  2. Small point and bay, Kīpahulu qd., Maui.

Nā LepiliTags: Hawaiʻi Maui Kaʻū

ʻaumakua

/ ʻau.makua / Haw to Eng, Pukui-Elbert (1986),

1. nvt., Family or personal gods, deified ancestors who might assume the shape of sharks (all islands except Kauaʻi), owls (as at Mānoa, Oʻahu and Kaʻū and Puna, Hawaiʻi), hawks (Hawaiʻi), ʻelepaio, ʻiwi, mudhens, octopuses, eels, mice, rats, dogs, caterpillars, rocks, cowries, clouds, or plants. A symbiotic relationship existed; mortals did not harm or eat ʻaumākua (they fed sharks), and ʻaumākua warned and reprimanded mortals in dreams, visions, and calls. (Beckwith, 1970, pp. 124–43, 559; Nānā 38.) Figuratively, a trustworthy person. Probably literally, ʻau #4, group, + makua, parent.

  • References:

2. vt., To offer grace to ʻaumākua before eating; to bless in the name of ʻaumākua.

  • Examples:
    • ʻAuhea ʻoe, ē ke kanaka o ke akua, eia kā kāua wahi ʻai, ua loaʻa maila mai ka pō mai ka pō mai; no laila nāu e ʻaumakua mai i ka ʻai a kāua (prayer), hearken, O man who serves the god, here is food for you [literally,., our food], received from the night, so bless our food in the name of the ʻaumakua.

3. vt., To ask someone to hula; the request was not refused without giving the caller a lei or flower.

  • Examples:
    • ʻAumakua iā Kamuela, Samuel must dance!

Nā LepiliTags: religion ʻaumakua

ʻapapane

/ ʻapa.pane / Haw to Eng, Pukui-Elbert (1986),

n., A Hawaiian honey creeper (Himatione sanguinea), with crimson body and black wings and tail, found on all the main Hawaiian Islands. Its feathers occasionally were used for featherwork.

Kai; moana (open); malo, pāʻū (poetic). See sayings, pūnoni, forecast. Calm, quiet sea, kai mālie, kai malino, kai malolo, kai hoʻolulu, kai pū, kai wahine, kai kalamania, kaiolohia. Strong sea, kai koʻo, kai kāne, kai nui, kai nuʻu, ʻōkaikai. Rough or raging sea, kai pupule, kai puʻeone, kai akua, ʻōkaikai. Deep sea, kai hohonu, kai ʻau, kai hoʻēʻe, kai lū heʻe (fig.). Restless sea with undercurrent, kai kuolo, kai holo, kai lewa, lapa kai, kai kō, kai au. Dark blue sea, moana uli, moauli. Streaked sea, associated with Kona, kai māʻokiʻoki. Whispering sea, associated with Kawaihae, kai hāwanawana. Salt sea, kai paʻakai. Shallow or reef sea, kai kohola, kai koʻele. Rippled sea, kai hoʻolili. Receding or ebbing sea, kai heʻe, kai emi, kai mimiki, kai hoʻi, kai nuʻu aku. Western sea, kai lalo. High sea, kai piha, kai nuʻu. Of the sea, o kai. Towards the sea, i kai, makai. Place where sea and land meet, ʻae kai. By the sea, a kai. Sea almost surrounded by land, kai hāloko. The eight seas, nā kai ʻewalu (seas about the Hawaiian Islands, poetic). Puna with its sea rustling over pebbles, Puna i ke kai nehe i ka ʻiliʻili. My sea, concealing sarong (UL 124), kuʻu kai, pāʻū halakā. Black sea, yellow sea, Kāne's purplish-blue red-brown sea … silent sea, swinging sea (PH 237), kai ʻeleʻele, kai melemele, kai pōpolohua mea a Kāne … kai mū, kai lewa.

1. nvs., Sea, sea water; area near the sea, seaside, lowlands; tide, current in the sea; insipid, brackish, tasteless.

  • Examples:
    • I kai, towards the sea.
    • O kai, of the lowland, of the sea, seaward.
    • Nā kānaka o kai, shore dwellers.
    • Nā kai ʻewalu, the eight seas [a poetic expression for the channels dividing the eight inhabited islands].
    • Kai lalo, lower sea, i.e., western sea, where the sun sets.
    • Ka mokupuni kai lalo, ʻo Kauaʻi, Kauiʻi, the island of the western sea.
    • Kō a kai, people from the shore district.
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2. n., Gravy, sauce, dressing, soup, broth.

3. Interjection, similar to keu. My, how much! How very! How terrific! Kai ka nani! How beautiful! Kai ke kolohe! Oh, how mischievous.

Molokai (mō'-lŏ-ka'i), n.

/ mō'-lŏ-ka'i / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

The fifth in relative size of the Hawaiian islands.

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Mahina, malama.

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