Wehewehe Wikiwiki Hawaiian language dictionaries

1. n., Heart.

• Examples:
  • Puʻuwai ʻeleʻele, scoundrel, rogue; black-hearted.
  • Puʻuwai hāmama, generous, openhearted.
  • Puʻuwai haokila, heart of steel, courageous.
  • Puʻuwai Hoʻāno, Sacred Heart.
  • Puʻuwai kapalili, fluttering heart.
• Related:
  • Use of puʻuwai as a center of emotions (instead of naʻau, ʻōpū, or loko) is probably a Western concept, but was noted in a chant dated 1853: Ke hōʻeuʻeu nei i ka puʻuwai, stirring now the heart.

2. n., A heart-shaped locket, as of gold (kula) or silver (kālā).

3. n., Small suckers on a taro plant (probably from puʻu uai, lumps removed, since these shoots were broken off so that the tuber might grow larger).

• Rare

4. n., Wrapped packages of vegetable food.

• Rare

• Related:
  • ʻŌpū puʻuwai hema, ʻōpū hema. Left ventricle.
  • ʻŌpū puʻuwai ʻākau, ʻōpū ʻākau. Right ventricle.
  • ʻŌpū puʻuwai, ʻōpū. Ventricle, of the mammalian heart.
  • Pona puʻuwai, pona. Atrium, of the mammalian heart.
  • Pona puʻuwai hema, pona hema. Left atrium.
  • Pona puʻuwai ʻākau, pona ʻākau. Right atrium.
• References:
  • See hoʻoikaika puʻuwai, koʻe puʻuwai.

the heart. Point. Niʻihau.

Food made of different vegetables tied in bundles and placed in an oven.

Heart. Lit., lump water.