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1. nvs. A cross (X-shaped; cf. the Christian cross, keʻa); to cross, as the hands or arms; to cross and tie; to turn and go. Peʻa aʻela nā lima i ke kua, crossed the hands on the back [a sign of grief (FS 285), anger, danger, or an insulting way to wish bad luck on another]. hoʻo.peʻa To cross and tie; fig., to persecute. No ka huāhuā i hoʻopeʻa aku ai lākou iāia (Mat. 27.18), for envy they had bound him. (PCP peka.)

2. n. Bat. Cf. more common ʻōpeʻapeʻa. Hanalei … ʻāina a ka peʻa i noho ai (FS 95). Hanalei … land where the bat lived. (PPN peka.)

3. n. Starfish, various species of Asteroidea. (KL. line 18.) Also peʻapeʻa, hōkū kai.

4. n. Sail, as of a canoe.

5. n. Forks or branches made of stalks of feathers bound at their bases with ʻieʻie roots, coming together to form the koʻo (stalk) which in turn is attached to the kāhili staff.

6. n. Boundary, edge, border, as of land. Mai kēlā peʻa ā kēia peʻa, from that border to this. E kau mai ana ʻo Hala-ʻaniʻani ma ka peʻa o ka nalu (Laie 509), Hala-ʻaniʻani landed on the edge of the wave.

7. vs. Menstruating, unclean, tattered (FS 167); to menstruate. Hale peʻa, menstrual house. Kapa peʻa (Isa. 64.6), filthy cloth.

8. n. Kite.

9. n. Tileaf thatch bundle.

10. n. Base of a leaf. Rare.

11. n. Sacred house.

s. The extremity of a village or settlement; mai kela pea, a i keia pea, from one end of the settlement to the other end.

2. The name of one of the six houses of the ancient Hawaiians; he hale pea, oia kekahi hale. See HALE. E pani i ka puka o ka pea kapu, to shut the door of the pea, kapu, sacred house. Laieik. 167.

3. The sail of a canoe or ship.

4. The extreme end of a leaf of a tree.

5. A flying kite; he lupe hoolele.

6. The ground of offense; an entanglement in law; a difficulty.

7. The name of a many-pronged fish in the ocean; he mea ola manamana maloko o ka moana.

8. He hale koko. See HALEPEA.

9. The excrements of men; the place where they are thrown.

10. A cross or timbers put cross-wise thus X, formerly placed before the heiaus as a sign of kapu (taboo); e kau pea, to place in the form of a cross. See KEA.

s. Supernatural power, such as was supposed and believed to be an attribute of the gods; power; strength; might. See Oihk. 26:19. Applied under the christian system to divind power. Lunk. 6:14.

2. Spirit; energy of character. 2 Nal. 2:9. Official power or authority; o kona mau kaikuahine ka mana kiai. Lacieilc. 101.

3. Glory; majesty; intelligence; ka ihiihi, ka nani, ka ika.

4. A branch or limb of a tree; the cross piece of a cross; a limb of the human body.

5. A line projecting from another line. Puk. 37:19. SEE MANAMANA.

6. Food while being chewed in the mouth, children were fed by taking the food from the mother's mouth and putting it into the child's; a mouthful of food.

7. The name of the place of worship in a heiau; a house in the Luakini; hence,

8. The name of a particular class of heiaus.

9. The name of a species of kalo.

10. Name of a species of fish-hook.

1. Supernatural power, such as was believed to be an attribute of the gods; power; strength; might. Applied under the Christian system to divine power. Lunk. 6:14.

2. Spirit; energy of character. Official power or authority; o kona mau kaikuahine ka mana kiai.-Laieik. p. 101.

3. A branch or limb of a tree; the cross piece of a cross.

4. A limb of the human body.

5. A line projecting from another line. See manamana.

1. adj., Wild; tearing; furious; ferocious; cross; he ilio hihiu hae, a ferocious wild dog; applied to a wolf.

2. The growling or snarling of a cross dog.

1. nvt. Cross, crucifix, any crossed piece; main house purlin; sticks connecting canoes of a double canoe. Fig., to hinder, obstruct, intercept, block; obstruction, barrier; baffled (fig.). Used idiomatically like kana 2 and kaʻe 1: ʻA ʻole i keʻa mai ka hahana wela o kēia lā (Kel. 14), there was no limit to the stifling heat of this day. Cf. keʻahakahaka, keʻapaʻa. hoʻo.keʻa To cross, block, obstruct, hinder. (Probably PPN teka.)

2. n. Hand, as of bananas. (FS 245.)

3. nvt. Bow, dart; to shoot with bow and arrow (For. 4:259). (PPN tika, PCP teka.)

4. n. Male animal reserved for breeding; virile male; sire. Kū i ke keʻa, like the sire [of a child].

5. Pleurisy. (AP)

s. A cross; the form of a cross, viz.; one post upright, the other transverse. See AMANA.

v. To make a cross; to set up timbers in the form of a cross; to make four arms or four prominent points; to be opposed to.

2. Hoo. To accuse through envy. Mat. 27:18. To punish for little or no crime; ame ka hoopea wale o ka poe koikoi i ka poe liilii, and the great accused (punished) the small.

3. To be in bonds; to suffer, as a prisoner. Kol. 4:3. To bind one's hands behind his back or to a post; ua peaia kona mau lima i kona kua, no ka aihue.

4. To be bound or restrained from producing an effect. 2 Tim. 2:9. Hou aku la i ka hulu i ka inika, kakau iho la, pea ae la no, o kohu hele.

1. The extremity of a village or settlement: mai kela pea a i keia pea, from one end of the settlement to the other end.

2. One of the six houses of the ancient Hawaiians: he hale pea, oia kekahi hale. E pani i ka puka o ka pea kapu, to shut the door of the pea kapu, sacred house. Laieik. p. 167.

3. The sail of a canoe or ship.

4. The extreme end of a leaf of a tree.

5. A kite.

6. A cross used as a barrier or sign; a tabu sign; a cross or timbers put crosswise. Formerly placed before the temple as a sign of tabu.

1. To make a cross; to set up timbers in the form of a cross; to make four arms or four prominent points.

2. To be opposed to.

1. nvt., To twist, bind, or cross the hands, as behind the back; to throw over the shoulder, as a shawl; to overturn, overthrow; to evict, as a tenant; to trip, as with a spear thrust between the legs. Figuratively, to deceive, trick, treat treacherously; treachery.

• Examples:
  • Ka ʻōpeʻa aku i ka mea pono ma ka hoʻokolokolo ʻana (Sol. 18.5), to trip up the righteous man in trial.
• Related:
  • hoʻōpeʻa Caus/sim.; Treacherous, overturning; to cause to twist, cross, etc.

2. n., Scrotum.

3. n., Small boom or spar to extend and elevate the sails of a canoe.

1. v., To be turned or to lean to one side.

2. To turn off, as when land is taken away, perhaps for a fault, perhaps not; ua laweia ka aina, opeaia ke kanaka.

3. To drive one away; hakaka laua, a opeaia o mea e mea.

4. To bind one's hands behind his back; opeaia kona mau lima; to cross; to tie cross-wise; to treat ill.

5. To abuse or treat one evil without reason.

6. To judge unrighteously. Sol. 18:5.

7. To treat the gods with contempt and risk the consequences. See pea.

8. To throw over one, as a kapa, or as a child over the shoulder.

s., A cross, as sticks crossed. See pea and kea. The cross stick which holds up the outer and upper end of a sail.

nvs., Cross, gibbet, gallows (Eset. 5.14), scaffolding; ladder made of sticks tied horizontally; crisscross, crossed; bones of a corpse buried with knees tied to breast.

• Figuratively, contrary, antagonistic.
• Examples:
  • Ua hana nā kamanā i mau ʻolokeʻa lāʻau ā puni ka hale pele, the carpenters built a wooden scaffolding around the belfry.
• Related:
  • hōʻolokeʻa Caus/sim.; To crisscross; to cross.

v., Olo and kea, cross ways. To cross; to vex; to thwart one in his plans; e kau olokea, to throw together criscross, as sticks of wood.

1. s., In the form of a cross, or several crosses; laau olokea.

2. Applied to the disposition; cross; fretful; disobliging.

v., [Olo and kea, crosswise.] To cross; to vex; to thwart one in his plans: e kau olokea, to throw together cris-cross, as sticks of wood.

n., Southern Cross. Literally, the cross.

• References:
  • PCP Peka.

[From hoonanaa, to enrage.] adj., Angry; cross; reluctant: Hoonana hoi oe; You are cross.

1. vi., To cross the arms high in front, with hands on shoulders; to cross the hands behind the back (either was considered a curse and highly insulting).

• Related:
  • Same as kākēkepa.

2. To think, ponder, consider.

• References:
  • Cf. kepakepa, rhythmic recitation.

n., Station of the cross (Catholic); procession of the cross.

n.v. To make a cross or X, especially in black magic (the victim becomes gravely or mortally ill by stepping on or over the mark); to crisscross; a cross or X.

n. Southern Cross. Lit., cross star.

n.v., To place cross sticks, as to block an entrance; cross sticks.

1. vs., Surly, cranky, roiled, complaining, irritable, peevish, bad tempered, cantankerous, cross; severe, as labor.

• Examples:
  • Kai ʻaʻaka (Kep. 103), roiled sea.
• Related:
  • hōʻaʻaka Caus/sim.; To act surly, to pretend to be cross.
• References:
  • See ex., papaioa.

2. vs., Dry, as coral of the reef at low tide; parched, wrinkled, dry and thirsty; peeling off, as the tough skin of such fish as the humuhumu after it has been in the fire; to crackle, burst, as a ripe melon.

3. n., Rocky undersea cavern.

• References:
  • PH 219, Malo 26.

4. n., Wood of the naio, bastard sandalwood.

nvt. Cross-stitching; to do cross-stitching.

s. Laau and kea, a cross. A cross of wood.

[Laau, wood, and kea, a cross.] A cross of wood.

Southern Cross. See Newa, Newe. Lit., star cross.

Constellation named Crux or the Southern Cross. Lit., the cross. See Newa.

Name of a constellation that, because peʻa refers to cross, may be the Southern Cross.

s. Iaau and kea a cross; a cross of wood.

s. The act of shooting an arrow.

2. The act of the arrow in flying from the bow to the object.

3. A bow to shoot with; a cross bow; kanaka pana pua, an archer. 1 Sam. 31:3. He mau mea pana, hunting instruments. Kin. 27:3.

4. A portion of land less than an aina. See APANA, a piece.

5. The pulse; nawaliwali ka pana, the pulse is feeble.

1. adj., Energetic; persevering; searching; seeking.

2. Fretful; cross; stubborn.

v. To flap or shake, as a sail; to turn one side or be loose, as a tooth; as an adjective, he niho pae, a loose tooth.

2. To be carried along by the surf towards the shore; to play on the surf-board; to come to a land, as a boat or canoe; to go ashore from a vessel; to cross a river to the opposite shore. Ios. 4:18. To float ashore from the sea; no na laau hao i pae mua mai, for the timber with iron that had previously floated ashore.

3. To lift up; to raise a little.

4. To strip the bark from a tree; to peel off, as the skin of a banana or of a kalo.

5. To strike upon the ear, as a distant sound; to sound, as from a distance.

6. To be published extensively.

7. Hoo. To land; to put ashore, as a person or goods from a vessel. 1 Nal. 5:9.

1. nvs., Sun, sun heat; sunny, solar.

• Related:
  • hoʻolā Caus/sim.; To sun, put out in the sunlight.
• References:
  • See examples for lolo, brain.
  • PPN laʻaa .

2. n., Day, date.

• Examples:
  • Kēia lā, today.
  • Lāpule, Sunday.
  • Ia lā aʻe, ia lā aʻe, from day to day.
  • Ka lā i ala hou ai ka Haku, the day the Lord rose; Easter (Protestant).
  • Poʻe Hoʻāno o nā Lā Hope Nei, Latter-Day Saints; literally, saint people of these last days.
  • Lā kākou i kēia lā, we have much sun today.
• References:
  • PEP laa .

3. n., A sail.

• References:
  • PPN laa .

4. n., Fin.

• Examples:
  • Kua lā, dorsal fin.
• References:
  • Cf. lālākea.

5. n., Each of two cross sticks holding corners of the dip net called ʻupena ʻākiʻikiʻi.

6. Common demonstrative occurring after both nouns and verbs, and as the last part of the demonstrative kēlā that (far, see table 12 in Gram. 7.2) and pēlā, like that; following directionals it is usually unstressed and written as the concluding part of the directional (aʻela, akula, ihola, maila). It occurs also in the sequence ua (noun) lā, that aforementioned.

• Examples:
  • He kanaka kēlā, that's a human.
  • Maikaʻi pēlā, [it's] good that way.
  • Hele maila ʻoia, he came.
  • Ua kanaka lā, that aforementioned person.
• Related:
  • A variant is ala #4. (Gram. 7.4.)
• References:
  • PNP laa .

7. Particle expressing doubt, uncertainty.

• Examples:
  • Pehea lā! How, I don't know.
• References:
  • See Gram. 7.5.

8. n., The letter “l”.

• Source:
  • English.

9. n., Sixth note on the musical scale, la.

• Source:
  • English.

10. interjection, Common refrain in songs, as in Elbert and Mahoe 90.

1. nvs. Supernatural or divine power, mana, miraculous power; a powerful nation, authority; to give mana to, to make powerful; to have mana, power, authority; authorization, privilege; miraculous, divinely powerful, spiritual; possessed of mana, power.

• Examples:
  • Mana makua, parental authority.
  • Leo mana, voice of authority that is obeyed.
  • Mana kiaʻi, guardian power.
  • Mana loa, great power; almighty.
  • Noho mana, to wield power, occupy a position of power.
  • Ke kumu … i mana ai ka ʻaoʻao aliʻi, the reason for giving the chief's side power.
  • E mana ana nō i ke konohiki (Kep. 159), it is the privilege of the landlords.
  • E mana nō ma ka lā ʻumi, effective on the tenth day [as a law].
• Related:
  • hoʻomana Caus/sim.
    • a. To place in authority, empower, authorize. He bila e hoʻomana ana i ke koho ʻia o nā luna mākaʻi, a bill authorizing the election of district sheriffs. ʻO nā kānāwai i hoʻomana hou ʻia, laws re-enacted.
    • b. To worship; religion, sect. Hoʻomana Kepanī, Buddhist; Buddhism. Hoʻomana kiʻi, idolatry, idol worship. Hoʻomana Naʻauao, Christian Science. Hoʻomana o Iesu Kristo o nā Poʻe Hoʻāno o nā Lā Hope Nei, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Hoʻomana Palani (Farani), French religion; Catholicism. Hoʻomana Pīhopa (Bihopa), Episcopalian religion; literally, bishop's religion. Hoʻomana Pōʻaono, Seventh Day Adventist; literally, Saturday religion. PPN mana.
• References:
  • Cf. -āmana.

2. nvs. Branch, limb, crotch; crosspiece, as of the cross; a line projecting from another line; stream branch; road branch or fork, variant, version, as of a tale; to branch out, spread out.

• Related:
  • Mana weu lani, branch with divine foliage (a chief).
• References:
  • PPN manga .

3. n. Hook used in catching eels.

4. n. Stage in growth of fish in which colors appear; stage of a foetus in which limbs begin to develop.

5. n. A native fern (Hypolepis punctata 🌐), with large, much subdivided fronds. The dark-brown mature stems were used to plait the best hats, after being scraped to remove the pulp.

• Related:
  • Also: olua.

6. n. A variety of taro used in medicine; it propagates by branching from the top of the corm. (HP 23.) Mana may be qualified by descriptive terms.

7. n. A taboo house in a heiau.

• References:
  • Cf. ʻaha hele honua.

s. A tradition; a legend. See KAAO.

2. A cross; same as kea.

3. Anything that rolls or turns, as a top, a wheel of a carriage, a carriage itself, a cart, wagon or chariot. Kin. 46:5. Kaa i uhiia, a covered wagon. Nah. 7:3. A grindstone.

4. The branch of a vine.

5. A name given to all kinds of foreign timber, except oak.

6. A strand of a cord; a rope; the string that fastens a fish-hook to the line.

7. A path to walk in. Hal. 6:11.

8. A shrub.

s. A dog; ilio hihiu, a wolf; ilio hahai, a greyhound. Sol. 30:31.

2. The cross beam of a house.

3. FIG. A catamite. Hoik. 22:15.

4. A stingy, close man.

1. A dog: ilio hihiu, a wild dog—a wolf; ilio hahai, a pursuing dog—a greyhound.

2. The brace that holds the rafter to the cross beam.

3. A catamite.

4. Poetical for cloud. (The Hawaiian poet personified the clouds as ilio, dogs, as he had no nobler animals. With the term he coupled some descriptive adjective, as: uli, dark; ehu, red; hakeakea, pink, etc.)

1. v., See huikai above. To turn topsy-turvy; to mix up irregularly; to throw things together without order.

2. To accuse much and falsely; to vary in narration; to cross one's own track in a story.

1. Reduplication of kuhi; to show, demonstrate, designate, prescribe, teach, give orders; to direct heiau ceremonies; one always giving orders (Kep. 105); reference, direction, prescription, exponent; bossy.

• Examples:
  • Kuhikuhi pono ʻia, pointed out exactly and specifically.
  • Kuhikuhi i ke keʻa, to make the sign of the cross.
• Related:
  • Kuhikuhi o ka manawa, time designation, chronology.
  • Kuhikuhi i ka ʻaoʻao, page reference.
  • Nā kuhikuhi pono, specifications.
  • Papa kuhikuhi, index, contents, program.
  • Papa kuhikuhi uku, salary schedule.
  • Palapala kuhikuhi, chart.
  • Paniinoa kuhikuhi, demonstrative pronoun.
  • hoʻokuhikuhi Caus/sim. Rare.
• References:
  • See kuhikuhi hewa.
  • PPN tusitusi .

2. vs., Sweet, tasty, fat.

• References:
  • PCP tufi , PCP tusi .

1. n., Brink, border, margin, rim, brim, fringe, curb, bank, edge; toothless gums; projecting brow of a hill.

• Examples:
  • He kaʻe wale nō, only gums and no teeth.
• References:
  • Cf. kaʻekaʻe, hakakaʻe.
  • PNP take .

2. Idiom following ʻaʻole and possessive o.

• Examples:
  • ʻAʻole a kaʻe mai, without limit.
• References:
  • For a similar idiom, see kana #2.

3. vi., To sulk, fuss; sullen, cross.

4. vi., To smudge, dab, besmear.

• Related:
  • hōkaʻe, hoʻokaʻe Caus/sim.; To daub, smudge, soil, smear.
    • Hōkaʻe aʻela kuʻu pepa i ka ʻīnika, my paper is smeared by ink.
    • Cf. haukaʻe.

s. A measure of length used by Hawaiians; the length from the fingers of one hand to the elbow of the opposite arm when extended; i. e., the cutting off at the elbow; o ka puaa nui, he anana paha, he muku paha, a i ka iwilei paha.

2. A piece cut off; that which is cut off; anything cut short.

3. The outside of a canoe.

4. The name of the night when the moon entirely disappears; i ka po i nalowale ai ka mahina, o Muku ia: alaila, pau ka malama, on the night in which the moon entirely disappears, that is Muku, then the month ends.

5. The short end of the iako or cross stick of a canoe; hawele koke aku la ia i kana aho i ka muku o ka iako mua o kona waa.

6. A short garment, as if the bottom were cut off. See MUMUKU.

1. A measure of length used by Hawaiians; the length from the fingers of one hand to the elbow of the opposite arm when extended; that is, the cutting off at the elbow; o ka puaa nui, he anana paha, he muku paha, a i ka iwilei paha.

2. A piece cut off; that which is cut off; anything cut short.

3. The starboard side of a canoe.

4. The night when the moon entirely disappears: i ka po i nalowale ai ka mahina, o muku ia: alaila, pau ka malama, on the night in which the mobh entirely disappears, that is Muku, then the month ends.

5. The short end of the iako or cross stick of a canoe; hawele koke aku la ia i kana aho i ka muku o ka iako mua o kona waa.

v. The intensive of ke. To strive together; to contend.

2. To scold; to be angry at; to provoke.

3. To skin; to pull off the skin; to show the teeth, as a cross dog.

4. Hoo. To press hard upon, i. e., to be intent upon; to carry a point. Kin. 19:9. Mai hookeke i ko kakou hele ana.

adj., Wild; tearing; furious; ferocious; cross; he ilio hihiu hae, a ferocious wild dog; applied only to animals.

1. n., Something torn, as a piece of tapa or cloth. See haehae. The Hawaiian signals were formerly made of torn tapa; hence, in modern times:

2. n., A flag; ensign; banner; colors, etc.: ke kia, ame ka pea, ame ka hae, the masts, the sail, and the flag. Syn: Lepa.

3. n., The growling or snarling of a cross dog.

1. nvt., To hit, strike, throw, smite, hack, thrust, toss, fling, hurl, dash, especially with a quick hard stroke; to bail water, as from a canoe; to clean, as weeds or mud from a pond; to fling the arms or swing them while walking; to make net meshes; to tie, as thatch battens; to knit; to fish with a pole; to turn the soil; to turn a rope for children to jump; to remove, as a cataract from the eye with the edge of a blade of kūkae puaʻa grass; to snare, as birds; to curse (especially if used with ʻino; cf. kāmalū); to murder; murderous; murderer, dead shot.

• Examples:
  • Kā i ka hoe, to pull on a paddle with all one's strength.
  • Kā make loa, to dash to death, hurl down, as a foe in lua fighting; to doom to death.
  • Kā i ka nele loa, to take away everything, utterly deprive, to be without.
  • Limu kā kanaka o Manuʻakepa, the man-striking moss of Manuʻakepa [name of a famous slippery alga growing on the beach at Hanalei, Kauaʻi].
  • Kā makau, to make a fishhook of bone or other material.
  • Kā kēhau, to rub tape on grass or shrubbery to absorb the dew as a means of gathering moisture in arid places such as Kaʻu.
  • Kā koʻi, to make adzes.
  • I ke kā ʻana (For. 5:650), in tying [thatch].
• Related:
  • Kā i ka ʻino, to curse, do evil to.
  • Kā liliko, to burn, sear.
  • For kā i ka waha, see waha.
  • hoʻokā Caus/sim.; To dash down, shatter, break, strike.
• References:
  • PPN taa.

2. nvt., Canoe bailer; to bail.

• References:
  • PPN taa.

3. n., Beater, knee-drum beater made of dried ti leaves or braided fiber.

4. n., Cross-stitching.

5. n.v., Vine, as of sweet potato; to send out a vine, to vine, to grow into a vine.

• Examples:
  • Ua kā nā ʻuala a kākou, our sweet potatoes have grown into vines.
• References:
  • Cf. hīkākā, kāhihi.

6. nvi., Root cutting, as of breadfruit; to send forth shoots.

7. n., Pelvic bone.

• Examples:
  • He kā manu (For. 4:287), thigh of a bird [perhaps a mistranslation; ʻūhā manu in the preceding line is mistranslated leg of a bird].

8. n., Incoming, of a current (au).

9. n., Container, hanger.

• References:
  • Cf. kā ipu, kā paka, kā ʻumeke.

10. interjection, of mild disapproval, annoyance, or surprise. Oh! So! Goodness! So that's it! Is that so! (If spoken alone it is frequently pronounced Chā! or Sah!)

• Examples:
  • ʻO ʻoe kā! So it's you!
  • ʻOia kā! Is that it!
  • Eia aʻe nō kā! Still here!
  • ʻO kā mākou kā kāu mea i manaʻo ai (For. 4.297), so ours is what you wanted.
• References:
  • Gram. 12.

11. possessive, Of, belonging to (a-class, Gram. 9.6), as in the possessives kā kākou, our (inclusive), kā mākou, our (exclusive); kā ka haumana puke, the student's book.

• References:
  • PNP taʻa.

12. n., Czar.

• Source:
  • English.

13. n., Tar, asphalt.

• Source:
  • English.
• Related:
  • Also: tā.

kikino, Data. Literally, associated information.

• Related:
  • Hōkeo ʻikepili. Data bank, database.
  • Hoʻokuene ʻikepili. To browse, as in a database program having the capability to rearrange data.
  • Laina ʻikepili. Data stream, as in a computer program.
  • Pakuhi huina ʻikepili. Cross-tab graph, in math.
  • Pukaaniani kolamu ʻikepili. List editor screen, in a computer program.
• References:
  • See ili, kāhuakomo, kāhuapuka, kākuhi, waiho.

s. A hole; a breach, as in a side of a house; hence,

2. A ladder, i. e., the cross sticks and spaces between.

3. An artificial hen-roost; hanaia i haka no ua moa la e kau ai.

4. A building not tightly inclosed, having many open places.

1. A hole; a breach, as in a side of a house; hence,

2. A ladder, that is, the cross sticks and spaces between.

3. A hen-roost: hanaia i haka no ua moa la e kau ai.

4. A building not tightly inclosed, having many open places.

To weave cross-wise; to construct by crossing the material used in the making, as in lattice work.

adj. See KEA, cross, above. In the form of several crosses, as sticks under a piece of timber to carry it; a keakea a amo aku.

1. v., To overthrow; to overturn; to be turned or to lean to one side.

2. v., To turn off as when land is taken away perhaps for a fault, perhaps not: ua laweia ka aina, opeaia ke kanaka; to drive one away: hakaka laua, a opeaia o mea e mea.

3. v., To bind one's hands behind his back: opeaia kona mau lima; to cross; to tie crosswise; to abuse or ill treat one without reason.

4. v., To judge unrighteously.

5. v., To treat the gods with contempt and risk the consequences. See pea.

6. v., To throw over one, as a tapa, or as a child over the shoulder.

a cross. Land section, Hilo, Hawaii.

1. nvt. To ward off, thrust aside, parry, fend off, bar, shield, defend, protect; to ignore a command or law, make void, nullify, prevent, repulse, resist, break, avoid, not adhere to; protection, defense, barrier, warding off, guard; curtain (Puk. 26.4); bib, partition, bar, railing, bulwark, shield, sheath, outer garment; division, canto of a song, scene of a play, division of song in a hula (preceded by both ka and ke).

• Examples:
  • Ua pale ka pilikia, the trouble is thrust aside, finished, over.
  • Pale i ke aʻo a ka makua, to thrust aside the teaching of the parent.
  • Pale ka leo (Kel. 61), voice is silenced [in death].
  • He lā ikaika ʻole a ke au i ke pale (For. 5:561), a day when the head current was not strong.
• Related:
  • Pale lua (Heb. 9.3), second veil or partition in the temple of Solomon.
  • Pule pale (Kep. 57), prayer asking for protection.
  • Pale ʻōlelo, disobey.
  • ʻIli pale o kāmaʻa, sole of shoes.
  • Pale hewa i ke kuke, avoid the duty, smuggle.
  • Ninaninau pale, cross-examination.
  • Mea pale, defendant.
  • Pale ka ʻaʻaka, crosspatch, cantankerous person; literally, cranky one who shoves.
  • Pale kauoha, to ignore, fail to carry out a command.
  • hoʻopale Caus/sim.; To fend or ward off; to separate, partition off; to defend in court; to disown.
    • Ma ka ʻaoʻao hoʻopale, on the side of the defendant.
• References:
  • PPN pale.

2. vt. To deliver, as a child.

3. nvt. Lining, as of a garment; leaf lining of a ground oven; flap of a malo; to cover, overlay, line; to form a barrier.

• References:
  • See pale hou.

4. n. Gunwale lashed to a canoe.

5. n. An interval of time in music, a bar in music which separates the staff into measures.

6. n. Presser foot on a sewing machine.

7. n. Apron, bib.

8. n., Barley (Hordeum 🌐 spp.), bran.

• Source:
  • English.
• Examples:
  • Hua pale, grain of barley.
• Related:
  • Also: bale, bare.

1. adj., A heap of bones thrown together promiscuously.

2. A cross or gibbet. Eset. 5:14.

3. A kind of ladder, such as is made by tying sticks horizontally on erect poles.

4. The frame on which the people climbed and stood in putting up a house.

1. adj., In the form of a cross, or several crosses; laau olokea.

2. adj., Applied to the disposition, disobliging; contrary; antagonistic.

1. n., A heap of bones thrown together promiscuously.

2. n., A cross or gibbet.

3. n., A kind of ladder, such as is made by tying sticks horizontally on erect poles.

4. n., The frame on which the people climbed and stood in putting up a house; a scaffolding.

n., Chest, breast. Figuratively, heart, character.

• Examples:
  • Umauma nahā, very hungry.
  • Hoʻokahi ka umauma! United, all as one!
  • He aha ka hua i ka umauma? (PH 42), what is the thought in the heart?
  • E wehe i ka umauma i ākea, open the chest wide [be generous, kind].
  • ʻAu umauma ʻo Hilo i ka wai, Hilo swims breasting the water [travel regardless of obstacles; Hilo district had gulches and streams hard to cross].
• References:
  • PPN uma , shoulder; PCP uma , chest.

adj. Crossing; put together in the form of a cross or gallows; na laau amana kauia’i o Kuhama; he aleo kahi hale, he amana kekahi hale.

Crossing; put together in the form of a cross: Na laau amana i kauiai o Kuhama.

1. n., Ledge, step, jog, as on a cliff.

• Examples:
  • He kanaka no kaulu hānai (saying), a man from the high cliff ledge [a prominent man].
• References:
  • See ex., pali.

2. (Cap.) Southern Cross.

• Related:
  • Also: Newe.

3. All species of an endemic genus (Pteralyxia 🌐), small trees related to maile, found only on Oʻahu and Kauaʻi, resembling hōeli (Ochrosia 🌐) with its shiny, oblong leaves. Fruits are paired, red, ovoid, and each contains one large winged seed.

• References:
  • Neal 684.

4. Same as ʻālaʻa (Planchonella 🌐), a tree.

5. Same as āulu 5, and lonomea, Sapindus oahuensis 🌐, a tree.

6. Neighborhood, locality, place.

• References:
  • Cf. kaiāulu.

7. Variant of kaunu.

adj. Very angry; cross.

1. Very angry; cross.

2. Fault finding.

1. nvs., Aim, motto, purpose; to aim or strive for, to concentrate on.

• Examples:
  • ʻOnipaʻa kā Liliʻuokalani mākia, stand firm was Liliʻuokalani's motto.

2. nvt., Pin, nail, wedge, spike, stake, bolt; to nail, bolt, crucify, pin; to establish, as a kingdom; to destroy by sorcery; to drive stakes, as in surveying; to fasten.

• Examples:
  • Mākia ʻia ma ka lāʻau keʻa, nailed to the cross.

vs. Cross, irritable, petulant.

adj., Cross; petulant; angry.

adj., Cross; petulant; showing anger, irritation, rage, etc., in language or looks.

1. To load, as cargo or freight; to put on, as gear on a horse; to send, as a letter.

• Examples:
  • Hoʻouka pū nā wāwae, to cross the legs.
• References:
  • 2 Sam. 11.14.
  • PPN uta .

2. To rush on, as in battle; to attack, raid.

• Examples:
  • Hoʻouka kaua, to attack, battle, wage a military campaign.
• References:
  • Cf. kahua hoʻouka.

adj. Fallen, as the countenance with shame.

2. Faded; wilted, as a plant.

3. Angry; cross; reluctant.

adj., See nana, to bark; to growl. Angry; cross; reluctant.

hamani To cross out. Comb. kaha + peʻa. Cf. kahalina, kahalalo, kahawaena.

kikino, Angle, in math.

• Source:
  • Existing dictionary word
• Related:
  • Huina peleleu. Obtuse angle.
  • Huina ʻoi. Acute angle.
  • Pakuhi huina ʻikepili. Cross-tab graph.
• References:
  • See hoʻopiha kaha, hoʻopiha kūpono, kaha huina.

1. v., See hai, to break. To break; to break in pieces; to break, as a yoke. Kin. 27:40. To break off, as the branch of a tree. Rom. 11:17. To crush, as a flower. Laieik. 142.

2. To break, as a law or command. Nah. 15:31.

3. Hoohaihai. To tease; to vex; to make one cross; to provoke.

4. To go through the process of separating the flesh from the bones of a dead person; to dissect; ua haihai o Kamehameha, alaila hoi mai o Liholiho mai Kawaihae mai.

1. Reduplication of naʻi #1, naʻi #2.

2. vs., Crabbed, bitter, cross, of sour disposition; morose; ill-disposed; opposing.

• Rare

3. vi., To shorten, to make short.

• Rare

4. Similar to pīnaʻi #1.

• Rare

5. n., Variety of fish (no data).

1. A white tapa.

2. The upright posts within a house to which the laaukea, or cross ties, were fastened.

1. nvt. Ladder, bridge, as to scale a cliff or cross a gully; trestle; log or plank serving, as a bridge; steep trail; to lay sticks, as for a bridge or trestle, See ex. wāhia.

2. n. Garrison, fort, tower, altar, strong high place

3. n. Bracelet of hog's or dog's teeth. (For. 5.419).

4. n. A type of tapa.

n., Intestines, bowels, guts; mind, heart, affections; of the heart or mind; mood, temper, feelings.

• Figuratively, child.
• Examples:
  • Helu naʻau (name of an arithmetic book), mental counting.
• Related:
  • Pōkole ka naʻau, short-tempered, cross.
  • Hoʻopaʻanaʻau, to memorize.
  • Naʻau pōkole, short-tempered; literally, short intestine.
• References:
  • Cf. naʻau aliʻi, naʻau ʻino, naʻaupō.
  • PPN ngaakau.

adj. Howling, as of a ravenous beast. Isa. 13:21. Holoholona aoaoa, howling beasts. Hence, cross; angry; rough in language.

1. n., A name given to foreign animals generally when first introduced into the islands, now mostly applied to the horse; the horse. See the verb lio.

2. n., Same as ilio, a cross beam. The collar or tie beam of a house or other building; ka welau o ka lohi o ka lio.

s., A bow for shooting arrows; a cross-bow. 1 Oihl.12:2.

n., A bow for shooting arrows; a cross-bow.

vs. Surly, cross, cranky, violently rude, needlessly and unbearably insulting, snarling, often in the sense of making threats that may not be carried out; to shriek in anger.

kikino Product, in multiplication. Dic. Hualoaʻa kaupeʻa. Cross product.

vs., Impatient, irritable, cross, vexed.

• Examples:
  • Mai nauki mai ʻoe, don't be irritable.
• Related:
  • hoʻonauki Caus/sim.; Causing irritation; aggravating, annoying, exasperating, provoking.

vs. Unfriendly, cross, sullen. cf. konā, haughty; mākonā, malevolent.

Cross; of sour temper; sullen; defiant: A ike aku la ia Hinaikamalama e hele ana me ka maka kukona; and saw Hinaikamalama walking with a sullen countenance.—Laieik. p. 203.

KUK 330 KUK

n., Street, road, highway, thoroughfare, waterway, course.

• Literally, large path.
• Examples:
  • Alanui hele, any traversed road.
  • Alanui o ke keʻa, station of the cross.
  • Alanui polohiwa a Kanaloa, the dark path of Kanaloa [southern limit of the sun in its yearly cycle, about the 15th and 16th days of the month Hilina Mā.
  • Alanui polohiwa a Kāne, the dark path of Kāne [northern limit of the sun, about the middle of the month Kaulua].
  • Alanui maʻawe ʻula a kanaloa, road of the scarlet footprint of Kanaloa [the western sky].
• Related:
  • Poetic names for the equator are alanui a ke kuʻukuʻu, road of the spider, and alanui i ka piko o Wākea, road at Wākea’s navel.
• References:
  • PCP alanui.