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1. nvi. Awe, reverence, peacefulness, sacredness, holiness; feeling of awe, fear, or oppression; weird solitude, oppressive quiet; awestruck, lost in thought.

• Examples:
  • Ke ano mai nei ka nahele, ʻaʻohe manu o ke kula (song), the forest is silent, there are no birds in the plains.
  • Ano wale mai nō kō aloha, your love overpowers me.
• Related:
  • hōano Caus/sim.; Holy, devoted to sacred use, hallowed, solemn; to reverence, sanctify, attribute divine honor, hallow.
    • Poʻe Hōano o nā Lā Hope Nei, Latter-Day Saints.
    • Hōano, Hōano, Hōano (Hoik. 4.8), Holy, Holy, Holy.
    • Ē kō mākou Makua i loko o ka lani, e hōano ʻia kou inoa (Mat. 6.9), our Father which art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy name.

2. n. Time (in songs, and usually before ahiahi, rarely before kakahiaka).

1. s., Likeness; resemblance; image of a thing.

2. The meaning of a word or phrase.

3. The moral quality of an action, as good or evil, or the moral state of the heart.

4. The character of a person, as to his life and manners; the explanation of a thing obscure. kin. 41:8.

1. v., To have a form or appearance.

2. With hou, to change the form or appearance of a person or thing; e ʻano ae, to become new. Oihk. 13:16. To change the state of things.

3. With hoʻo, to boast; to glory; to hallow; to consecrate. Kin. 2:3.

4. To transform; to change the external appearance.

5. With e, to set apart to another purpose; to consecrate. Hal. 4:3.

6. With hou, to change; to transform. 2 Kor. 11:13.

7. With e, to change, as the countenance, from mirth to sadness and fear. Dan. 5:10.

s., Fear; dread; ua kau mai ke ano iaʻu la, fear fell upon me; ke kau mai la ke ano hewa ia oe.

v., To be in fear; ano wale mai la no au. See ano or anoano. TO be silent; solitary, as a deserted village; ua pau i ke kaua, hauaia na kanaka a pau i ka hana.

1. adv. Now; at the present time; ʻānō nei, ʻānō la. 1 Sam. 2:16. Soon.

2. Often used more as an expression of earnestness or certainty of something doing, or to be done, than of anything literally doing now. Puk. 6:1.

3. It is used after some other event has been spoken of as a consequence. Ios. 1:2. Inā nō ʻānō, even now. 1 Nal. 14:14.

adv., At the present time; at once; instantly; now.

n., Fear of impending danger; awe; dread: Ua kau mai ke ano iau la; fear fell upon me.

1. n., Likeness; resemblance; image of a thing.

2. n., The meaning of a word or phrase.

3. n., The moral quality of an action, as good or evil, or the moral state of the heart.

4. n., The character of a person, as to his life and manners.

5. n., The explanation of a thing obscure.

1. v., To be frightened; to be stricken with sudden fear; to be overcome with awe: Ano wale mai la no au.

2. v., To be silent; to be solitary, as a deserted village.

v., To take a definite shape; to have a form or appearance.

Awe, reverence, fear. See hoʻāno.

(ke) ano dread; reverence; sense of invisible presence, good or evil.