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kōloa

/ kō.loa / Haw to Eng, Pukui-Elbert (1986),

1. n., Long cane with a crook.

2. vi., To make a prolonged sound, roar.

  • Examples:
    • ʻO Puna ia o ke kai kōloa i ka ulu hala, this is Puna where the sea ever roars in the pandanus groves.

Kōloa

/ Kō-loa / Wahi ｜ Location, 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 Lepili ｜ Tags: Hawaiʻi Kaʻū Kauaʻi

Kōloa

Wahi ｜ Location, Hawaiʻi Place Names (2002),

Beach, Punaluʻu, Hawaiʻi. Pebble or ʻiliʻili beach between Punaluʻu and Nīnole where birth pebbles are said to occur. Traditional stories say that the pebbles, or ʻiliʻili hānau, reproduce themselves and give birth to smaller pebbles.

  • Literally, long [grass] cane, or to roar.

Nā Lepili ｜ Tags: Hawaiʻi

kōloa

Haw to Eng, Kent (1986),

Long cane. Lit., cane long, the reason why a district in Kauaʻi is so named. No other data. (A.)

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