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nvs., Full, complete, filled, loaded; full-blooded; completion, capacity, fullness; pregnant.

• Examples:
  • Piha loa, stuffed full.
  • Hoʻokaʻa piha, to pay in full.
  • Piha maikaʻi, well-filled, filled just right.
  • Hawaiʻi piha, pure Hawaiian.
  • Hoʻi mai nō ke kai i kona piha ʻana (Puk. 14.27), the sea returned to its wonted flow.
  • Iā lākou e piha ana ma Pāʻauhau (For. 5:411), while they crowded about at Pāʻauhau.
• Related:
  • hoʻopiha Caus/sim.; To fill, complete, pervade, stuff, eat one's fill, cram; to fill out, as a growing child; to breed, as of a female animal; to impregnate; to fill, as a tooth; to load, as a gun; to thread, as a needle.
    • Hoʻopiha ʻia i ka pulupulu, stuffed with cotton.
    • Moa hoʻopiha ʻia me ka laiki, chicken stuffed with rice.
• References:
  • Cf. piha makahiki, pihapiha, piha pono.

[Hoo and piha, full.]

1. v., To cause to be full; to overflow; to abound.

2. v., To swell up, as the stomach from disease.

3. v., To be full, as cloth gathered and plaited into a ruffle; hence,

4. v., To be full and flowing, as a ruffle.

5. v., To fill up with, or spread defamatory language.

1. v., To be full, as a vessel or container. FIG. To be full of anger. Eset. 3:5.

2. To have conceived, as a female; to be pregnant; ua piha anei kela bipi wahine? ae, ua piha, is that cow with calf? she is.

3. Hoopiha. To fill; to cause to be full, as with water or other things.

4. To overflow its banks, as a river.

5. FIG. To fill, as the heart with joy or sorrow.

6. To be moved or energized by the Holy Spirit. Oih. 2:4.

7. To fill to overflowing.

1. vs., Full of food, as a calabash (but not as full as pihaʻū).

• Examples:
  • ʻUmeke ka ʻeo, a full calabash [a well-filled mind].

2. vt., To agree.

• Examples:
  • Ua ʻeo like lāua e hele, they agreed to go.

vs., Satisfied after eating, full, satisfying; to have eaten, to eat one's fill.

• Figuratively, intoxicated.
• Examples:
  • Ua māʻona ʻoe? Have you eaten? Have you had enough? Are you full?
  • Māʻona maikaʻi, to have had enough to eat, but not to have overeaten.
  • Māʻona piha, māʻona loa, completely full.
  • He lau māʻona (For. 4:43), a leaf that gives plenty to eat.
  • Inu mai nei a māʻona, a laila hoʻohakakā, drinking until drunk, then starting fights.
  • Māʻona ka ʻuhane i ka ʻōlelo a ke Akua, the spirit is sustained by the word of God.
• Related:
  • Usually pronounced but not written māʻana.
  • For a rare use of māʻona as a noun, see kuenenuʻu.
  • hoʻomāʻona Caus/sim.; To eat all one wants, to feed all that is wanted.
• References:
  • PPN maakona .

1. v., See piha. To cause to be full; to overflow; to abound.

2. To swell up, as the stomach from disease.

3. To be full, as cloth gathered and plaited into a ruffle; hence,

4. To be full and flowing, as a ruffle.

1. vs. Filled full, crowded. Nolo ka waʻa i ka iʻa; nolo ka ʻīlio i ka ʻuku, the canoe is full of fish; the dog is full of fleas.

2. Same as nonō.

1. Reduplication of puʻu #1; full of protuberances, lumps; lumpy, piled in heaps; heaped up, swollen up.

• Examples:
  • ʻA ʻā puʻupuʻu, water-worn gravel or stones.
  • Poi puʻupuʻu, lumpy poi, figuratively, an unsocial person.
  • Puʻupuʻu lei pali i ka ʻāʻī, an irregular or imperfect [literally, lumpy] lei is a cliff on the neck [a lei is beautiful when worn].
• Related:
  • hoʻopuʻupuʻu Caus/sim.; Reduplication of hoʻopuʻu; a mound, to mound up.
• References:
  • PCP pukupuku .

2. Reduplication of puʻu #2; knuckles, joints; clenched fist, blow with the fist; pimply, full of blotches; skin eruptions, scurvy (Oihk. 21.20).

• Related:
  • hoʻopuʻupuʻu Caus/sim.; To clench the fist, to shake the fist threateningly.

3. Reduplication of puʻu #9; knotty.

4. n., Eyes at a joint, as of sugar cane or kava.

5. n., Capital, as of a candlestick.

• References:
  • Puk. 25.31

adj. Rough; uneven, as the surface of the ground; full of ravines.

2. Full of corners or projections.

1. Rough; uneven, as the surface of the ground; full of ravines.

2. Full of corners or projections.

1. v., To be full, as a vessel or container.

2. v., Fig. To. be full of anger.

3. v., To have conceived young; to be pregnant: Ua piha anei kela bipi wahine? Ae, ua piha. Is that cow with calf? She is.

adj. Round, full and plump, as a fat animal; full in flesh; fat.

n., Night of the full moon. When this moon set before daylight it was called Hoku Palemo, Hoku that slips away. When it set after daylight it was called Hoku Ili, grounded Hoku.

• Examples:
  • Ka mahina o Hoku, the full moon of the night Hoku.
• References:
  • Malo 32.
  • Cf. hōkū, star.
  • PEP Fotu , Sotu .

1. n. Shelf, perch, platform; roost, as for chickens; fish spear rack; rack for suspending water gourds and other household objects; rack attached to booms of double canoe to hold spears and other objects; ladder (see alahaka, haka ʻūlili).

• Examples:
  • Haka kau a ka manu, a perch for birds to light upon [a promiscuous woman].
• References:
  • PPN fata.

2. n. Recipient; medium, oracle, one possessed.

• Examples:
  • Haka waiwai (Kep. 117), recipient of wealth.

3. n. Crested feather helmet, so called because the crest perches on the helmet.

4. nvs. Hole, breach, open space, vacancy; empty, vacant, full of holes or spaces.

• Related:
  • hoʻohaka Caus/sim.; To make openings holes, spaces; to create space; full of holes. Figuratively, hungry.
• References:
  • Cf. hakahaka, ʻolohaka.

5. nvt. To stare, gaze.

• Examples:
  • (Hal. 22.17) Haka hele, to stare or examine carefully as one walks.
  • Ua haka malū aku kona mau maka i ka mea ʻilihune (Hal. 10.8), his eyes are privily set against the poor.

6. vt. To place wood in a ground oven, to lay an oven fire.

7. n. Heart, hearts, in a deck of cards.

• Eng.

1. vs., Wet, moist, soaked, saturated.

• Examples:
  • Pulu au i ka huna kai, I am soaked by spray.
• Related:
  • hoʻopulu Caus/sim.; To wet, soak, moisten, saturate.
    • Nā paipu hoʻopulu pāka, park sprinkler system.
• References:
  • PCP pulu.

2. n., A soft, glossy, yellow wool on the base of tree-fern leaf stalks (Cibotium spp. 🌐). It was used to stuff mattresses and pillows and at one time was exported to California. Hawaiians stuffed bodies of their dead with pulu after removing vital organs.

3. nvt., Any greenery or underbrush cut to be used as mulch, as well as the mulch itself; coconut husk, coconut fiber, raw cotton, tapa pulp; cushion; fine linen; tinder, kindling; soft, padded; to kindle, as fire (preceded by ke).

• Examples:
  • Pau pulu, ʻaʻole lau kanu (saying), mulch is gone, no [taro] leaves to plant [all is destroyed].
• Related:
  • Kapa pulu, quilt.
  • hoʻopulu Caus/sim.; To mulch, fertilize with compost.
• References:
  • See ex., ʻē #1.
  • PPN pulu.

4. n., Low branch, as of certain trees such as ʻohai, koa, ʻōhiʻa.

5. n., Bull.

• Source:
  • English.
• Examples:
  • Keoni Pulu, John Bull.
  • Ua holo ʻo Hanalē, komo mai ʻo Keoni Pulu, Henry has run off, John Bull has come in [said when one is full: hungry (which sounds like “Henry”) has gone, and John Bull (which sounds like “full”) has come].
• Related:
  • Also: bulu.

6. nvt., nvs., To fool; fooled; fool.

• Source:
  • English.
• Related:
  • hoʻopulu Caus/sim.; To act the fool.
• References:
  • Cf. kamipulu.

1. nvi. Mischievous, naughty, playful, as a child; rogue, rascal, scamp; mischief; hoot of an owl ʻaumakua warning of imminent danger (also same as hōʻeu (a)). Cf. hūʻeu. E ʻeu, get going; get a move on. Piha ʻeu, roguish scamp; full of fun or humor. Nui ka ʻeu o nā maka, eyes full of mischief. hō.ʻeu

a. To stir up, incite, animate, encourage, bestir. Kōmike hōʻeu, revival committee. Hōʻeu, kukupu, ʻīnana, kū i luna o ka moku (ancient prayer, For. 6:267), bestir, grow, animate, rule the island. (PCP keu; cf. Marquesan keu.)

b. (Cap.) Name of a star.

2. vi. To crawl along; to rise, rising. Ka ʻeu o ka noe, the rising of the mist. (PPN keu.)

1. vs. Full, as a food calabash. Fig., full of knowledge. See ex., ʻumeke.

2. vs. Strong, zealous.

3. n. Hair gathered in a topknot on the head, as by priests in ceremonies. (For. 6:401.)

Full, as a calabash with food: he aloha i ka ipu kaeo, love for the full calabash.

1. Successful in achievement, especially in competition; winning: ka pahu eo, the winning point.

2. Finished; complete; full: he puni eo, a full accomplishment.

1. nvi., Wave, surf; full of waves; to form waves; wavy, as wood grain.

• Examples:
  • Ke nalu nei ka moana, the ocean is full of waves.
• Related:
  • hoʻonalu Caus/sim.; To form waves.
• References:
  • PPN ngalu.

2. vt., To ponder, meditate, reflect, mull over, speculate.

• Examples:
  • Nalu wale ihola nō ʻo Keawenui-a-ʻUmi i ka hope o kēia keiki (For. 4:261), Keawenui-a-ʻUmi pondered about the fate of this child.
• References:
  • Cf. Eset. 6.6.
  • PPN na(a)nunga.

3. n., Amnion, amniotic fluid.

• References:
  • PPN, PCP lanu; note Hawaiian metathesis.

adj., See puka and pukapuka, full of holes. LIT. Vain; without substance. Mat. 5:22. Anything full of holes; hence, worthless; having an unsightly appearance; of no value.

adj. Full; stuffed; crammed; filled full.

1. s., Among Hawaiians, formerly, the name of any supernatural being, the object of fear or worship; a god. The term, on the visit of foreigners, was applied to artificial objects, the nature or properties of which Hawaiians did not understand, as the movement of a watch, a compass, the self-striking of a clock, &c. At present, the word Akua is used for the true God, the Deity, the object of love and obedience as well as fear.

2. The name of the night when the moon was perfectly full; a akaka loa o ia poepoe ana, o Akua ia po; hence it would seem that the ancient idea of an Akua embraced something incomprehensible, powerful, and yet complete, full orbed. The names of the four principal gods of the Hawaiians were Ku, Lono, Kane, and Kanaloa.

1. n., Formerly, among Hawaiians, the name of any supernatural being, the object of fear or worship; a god. The term, on the visit of foreigners, was applied to artificial objects, the nature or properties of which Hawaiians did not understand, as the movement of a watch, a compass, the striking of a clock, etc.

2. n., At present, the word Akua is used for the true God, the Deity, the object of love and obedience as well as fear.

3. n., The name of the night when the moon was perfectly full: A akaka loa o ia poepoe ana o Akua ia po. It would seem that the ancient idea of an Akua embraced something incomprehensible, powerful, and yet complete, full orbed. The names of the four principal gods of the Hawaiians were Ku, Lono, Kane and Kanaloa.

v. To be deep, as water; deep down, as a pit.

2. To be full, i. e., deep, as the sea at full tide.

1. To be deep, as water; to be deep down, as a pit.

2. To be full, that is, deep, as the sea at full tide.

adj. Full; plenty; no want; applied to a chief’s plate where there is always plenty; as, pa wiwi, a full plate; a sufficiency of food.

v. To conceive; to become pregnant.

2. To swell out, as one with child.

3. Hoo. To conceive; to be full of. Hal. 7:14. To be full morally of evil.

4. To put down in letters; to reduce to writing; na ko oukou kaikaina hanane mahoe i hookauhua ia (i keia manao) i ka malama o Augate : hookauhua paha auanei kakou iloko o ka hewa.

adj. Plump, as the shoulders of a young man; hard; full.

2. Dark-hearted; ignorant; unskillful; awkward; naaupo. (See the verb.) Waawaa iki naauao kahi keiki; waawaa iki naaupo kahi keiki.

3. Full of hillocks or knolls; he waawaa ka lae, an expression of blackguardism.

v. See PIHA, full, as a container. To cause to fill; to fill full, as a container; to put into a vessel until it runs over.

2. To overflow its banks, as a stream.

[Hoo and piha, full.] To cause to fill; to fill full, as a container; to put into a vessel until it runs over.

1. vs., Full, complete; filled; full and flowing, as a garment; filed, as cards; completed, as a questionnaire.

• Related:
  • hoʻopihapiha Caus/sim.; To fill, complete; to file, as cards; frame, questionnaire, any kind of form to be completed.
    • Ke hoʻopihapiha maila ke kino o ke keiki, the body of the child is filling out.
    • Aia ʻo mea maʻō, ke hoʻopihapiha maila, so-and-so is over there, stirring up hard feelings with tales. (Cf. hoʻopihapiha ʻōlelo.)

2. n., Gills of a fish.

• Examples:
  • Kukū ka pihapiha a piʻi ka lena, the gills stand out and the bile rises [of anger].

3. n., Ruffle, fringe, as on a dress.

• Examples:
  • Lima pihapiha, ruffled sleeve.
• Related:
  • hoʻopihapiha Caus/sim.; To make a ruffle; ruffler, as on a sewing machine.
• References:
  • Nah. 15.38.

4. Variant of ʻōpihapiha.

[Piha, full.] To swell out; to be full; to swell, as a bud before it opens. Syn: Polapola.

vs. Completely full, complete. ʻAʻole piha pono, incomplete. Piha pono ka manawa, to mature [of bonds]. Piha pono ka manaʻo, completely clear and intelligible idea. hoʻo.piha pono To complete, make completely full, clear, intelligible.

Reduplication of ʻale #1; stirring, moving, undulating, tossing, rippling, full to the brim.

• Examples:
  • Ā ka wai, ua piha ā ʻaleʻale ke kaʻekaʻe, the water is full, the edge is brimful.
• Related:
  • hōʻaleʻale Caus/sim.; To stir up waves, agitate, confuse; to cause tumult.
• References:
  • PCP kalekale.

adj. Full of holes, chinks, cracks, &c.; net-work. Puk. 27:4. Mea ulana pukapuka, net-work. Ier. 52:22. Eke pukapuka, a bag full of holes. Hag. 1:6.

Full of holes, chinks, cracks, etc.; network: mea ulana pukapuka, network; eke pukapuka, a bag full of holes.

adj. Tightly drawn, as a rope; full; plump, as one full fed.

Tightly drawn, as a rope; full; plump, as one full fed.

1. Full; filled full.

2. Soft; mellow.

1. Sinking; entering in.

2. Full to the limit; full to the verge of sinking.

adj. Round, full and plump, as a fat animal; full in flesh; fat.

v. To rise up; to swell. See OPU. To be swelled full, as one having eaten heartily.

2. To fill, as the belly of a hungry man; to be full, as a water calabash with water.

vs., Packed full, protruding, bulging, cramfull, swollen.

• Examples:
  • Hakē ka paʻi ʻai o ka Malulani, the Malulani [ship] is overloaded with bundles of hard poi [uncomplimentary reference to a pregnant woman].
• Related:
  • hoʻo Caus/sim.;-hakē To pack full, cram, push; to break, as a boil.

v., To be over full; to be full to the bursting point.

adj. Full, as a room with people; full, as a container; running over; packed in; crowded one against another.

2. Awkward; unskillful; ignorant.

1. Full, as a room with people; full, as a container; running over; packed in; crowded one against another.

2. Awkward; unskillful; ignorant; unable to accomplish.

adj. Round, full and plump, as a fat animal; full in flesh; fat.

Round. full and plump, as a fat animal; full in flesh; fat.

v. To suffer; to be in pain from fullness of the stomach.

2. To be large, round and full, as a child’s abdomen.

3. To be full, as one who has eaten too much.

4. To be fickle-minded.

adj., Full of knots, as a string; full of small round stones, as a road.

[Huhu, insect that bores into wood, and ku, contraction of kuku, standing thickly together.] Full of borers; full of holes made by the huhu pukapuka, or borer insect. Syn: Popopo.

adj. Full; well fed; well proportioned throughout; full fleshed.

Full; well fed; well proportioned throughout; full fleshed.

adj. Hilly; full of knolls; land full of knobs.

n., Full regalia, dress uniform. Literally, full professional garment.

To be full of driftwood: pihea na kahakai, the beaches are full of driftwood.

1. s., A crack, as in the wall of a house. Oihk. 14:3.

2. A rough road, full of ravines and difficult passes; he alualu inoino ke alanui e hele ai i Kahakuloa.

3. A second-hand garment, full of wrinkles.

4. The name given to the numeration table, beginning thus: elua lua aha, two twos are four; ma ke alualua ko lakou ao ana i ka helu, through the multiplication table they learn arithmetic.

1. Rough, bumpy road; road full of potholes (HE) (PE). 2. Pitted with holes, as a reef (PE). 3. A rough road, full of ravines and difficult passes (AP). Also, lehulehu (SMK).

causative prefix. Note: This prefix is often shortened to ho‘ before a vowel. Thus the word next below, namely ho‘o’, is in full ho‘o-o’. Ho‘ahu, on a previous page is in full, ho‘oahu.

Full of holes, cracks, chinks. ʻEke pukapuka, a bag full of holes. (Hag. 1:6). Porous stone; pockmarked.

Appearance of the sky at dawn of day; twilight of the morning. Websterʻs International Dictionary defines twilight as “the light from the sky between full night and sunrise, or between sunset and full night?ʻ

Appearance of the sky at dawn of day; twilight of the morning. Websterʻs International Dictionary defines twilight as “the light from the sky between full night and sunrise, or between sunset and full night?ʻ

v. to bo full as a vessel or container. Hoo-to fill, to cause to be full, to overflow its banks as a river, to fill as the heart.

v. To grumble secretly; to complain to one's self on account of not having one's expectations realized.

2. To scold; to threaten; to breathe vengeance.

3. To be full of evil; to be internally vile.

4. To complain of another; to find fault.

To be defective in character; to be full of moral failings or little vices.

1. vt. To brave, dare, challenge, defy (1 Sam. 17.10), check, venture; to accept a challenge; to volunteer, involving a difficulty; to act wickedly or presumptuously (Kanl. 1.43); bold, venturesome, valiant, intrepid.

• Examples:
  • He poʻe ʻaʻa hewa, a people acting wickedly.
  • He ʻaʻa ka manaʻo, he wiwo ʻole, thoughts are full of courage, fearless.
• References:
  • See ex., mea #1.

2. nvt. Belt, girdle, waist; to gird, tie on.

• Examples:
  • Kākiʻi maila ʻo Kahakaloa i kāna laʻau pālau, a loaʻa ihola ka ʻaʻa o Kawelo (FS 89), Kahakaloa brandished his war club so as to reach Kawelo's waist.

3. n. Bag, pocket, caul, envelope for a foetus, scrip (1 Sam. 17.40); fiber from coconut husk; clothlike sheath at base of coconut frond; cloth; chaff, hull (Ier. 23.28); skin covering eyeballs.

• Examples:
  • ʻAʻa haole, foreign cloth.
  • ʻAʻa maluna o ke ake, caul above the liver.
  • Ka ʻaʻa o ke au ma ke akepaʻa (Oihk. 3.4), the caul of the bile and the liver.
  • ʻAʻole kanaka ʻaʻa ʻole, no man without his scrip.
• References:
  • See ʻaʻa moni.
  • PPN kaka .

4. (Cap.) Same as Maʻaʻa, a wind.

5. Same as ʻā #4, booby bird.

1. vs., Rough, bumpy, uneven, full of ruts or puddles.

• References:
  • Cf. lua, hole.

2. (Cap.) n., North wind, known at Maui, Molokaʻi, and Oʻahu.

• References:
  • See ex., pāhili.

1. nvi., To grow, increase, spread; growth; increase or rising of the wind; to protect (PH 116, For. 6:474).

• Examples:
  • Ka ulu o ka lā, the rising of the sun.
  • Kai ulu, sea at full tide.
  • Ulu ehuehu, to grow fast, as a child.
  • Mauka ʻoe e hele ai, ma ka ulu o ka makani (PH 213), go inland where the wind blows.
• Related:
  • Also: unu.
  • hoʻoulu Caus/sim.; To grow, sprout, propagate; to cause to increase, as the surf.
    • Cf. mea hoʻoulu, growth, crop.
    • Hoʻoulu mea kanu, horticulture.
    • Mea hoʻoulu pilikia, troublemaker, agitator.
    • Hoʻoulu lāhui, to increase and preserve the nation [said to be the aim of King Kalākaua].
    • Pule hoʻoulu ʻāina, prayer for the increased productivity of the land.
• References:
  • Cf. mea ulu.

2. vi., Possessed by a god; inspired by a spirit, god, ideal, person, as for artistic creation; stirred, excited; to enter in and inspire.

• Examples:
  • Manaʻo ulu wale, a thought entered of its own accord, hence fancy, impulse, imagination.
  • E ulu, e ulu kini o ke akua, ulu ō Kāne me Kanaloa (prayer), enter and inspire, may myriadsu of spirits enter and inspire, including Kāne and Kanaloa.
  • Ua ulu aʻe ia mamuli o ka mahele lua o ke koʻikoʻi, this occurred because of the division of the responsibility.
• Related:
  • Also: unu.
  • hoʻoulu, hoʻūlu Caus/sim.; To stir up, inspire, excite, taunt.
    • Pule hoʻoulu, prayer for inspiration.
    • Oli hoʻoulu, taunting chant, as before combat.
    • Ka hoʻoulu hakakā, stirring up fights.
    • Hoʻoulu haunaele, stirring up a mob, agitator.
• References:
  • PPN huru.

3. n., Grove (see ulu kanu, Ulukou, ulu kukui, ulu lāʻau, ulu niu); assemblage, collection, or flock, as of stars (ulu hōkū), birds (ulu manu), ships (ulu moku), canoes (ulu waʻa).

• References:
  • PPN ʻulu.

4. Same as the more common uluulu #3.

5. nvt., Stick used in spreading hot oven stones; to spread the stones.

6. n., Kind of tapa made at Waipiʻo, Hawaiʻi; name of a quilt design.

7. n., Center, as of a canoe or net.

• Examples:
  • Kīhele ia ulu, bail out the center.
• References:
  • Cf. uluna #3.

8. n., A name used repeatedly in For. 5:703–9 for Kawelo’s warriors whose names begin with Kaulu (Kaulukauloko, Kaulukauwaho).

• Examples:
  • Ua poʻe ulu nei (For. 5:709), these ulu people.
  • Ka nui ulu, the many warriors.

1. v., Ma and nao, root not found. To think of; to call to mind; to meditate; manao io, manao oiaio, to believe as true; to credit; to; have full confidence in; to wish; to will. Rom. 9:18.

2. Hoomanao. To remember; to consider; to call to mind; to please to do a thing; to will.

v., To think; to think of; to call to mind; to meditate; manao io, manao oiaio, to believe as true; to credit; to have full confidence in; to wish; to will.

nvt., nvs. Aloha, love, affection, compassion, mercy, sympathy, pity, kindness, sentiment, grace, charity; greeting, salutation, regards; sweetheart, lover, loved one; beloved, loving, kind, compassionate, charitable, lovable; to love, be fond of; to show kindness, mercy, pity, charity, affection; to venerate; to remember with affection; to greet, hail.

• Examples:
  • Aloha ʻino! What a pity! Alas! [Expression of regret, either great or small.]
  • Aloha akua, love of god; divine love, pity, charity.
  • Mea aloha, loved one, beloved.
  • Aloha makua, considerate and thoughtful of parents and elders, filial.
  • Aloha ʻia, beloved, pitied.
  • Aloha pumehana, warm aloha, affection.
  • Me ke aloha o Kawena, with the love (or greeting) of Kawena.
  • ʻO wau iho nō me ke aloha, I remain, with very best regards.
  • Aloha ʻoe, ē Maria, ua piha ʻoe i ka maikaʻi, hail, Mary, full of grace.
  • Ē Maria hemolele, e aloha mai ʻoe iā mākou, Holy Mary, have mercy on us.
  • Aloha aʻe ana mākou i ke ehu wāwae o ka lani (chant for Kalākaua), we remember fondly the footprints of the king.
  • E aloha aku au i ka mea aʻu e manaʻo ai e aloha aku (Puk. 33.19), I show mercy to those I want to show mercy to.
  • Aloha nō ia mau lā o nā makahiki he kanalima i kūnewa akula! Affectionate [memories] of these days of fifty years past!
• Related:
  • Greetings! Hello! Good-by! Farewell! Alas! The common greetings follow:
    • Aloha ʻoe, may you be loved or greeted, greetings (to one person).
    • Aloha kāua, may there be friendship or love between us, greetings (to one person); dear Sir.
    • Aloha kākou, same as above, but to more than one person.
    • Ke aloha nō! Aloha! Greetings! (The nō may be prolonged for emphasis.) (Gram. 4.6)
    • The following greetings were introduced after European times; Aloha ahiahi, good evening. Aloha kakahiaka, good morning.
  • Aloha aliʻi, royalist, royal love.
  • hōaloha Caus/sim.; Rare variant of hoʻālohaloha. Cf. hoaloha.
• References:
  • Cf. aloha ʻāina, hanaaloha.
  • PPN ʻalofa .

adv., See verb 2. Yes; the expression of affirmation, approbation or consent; opposed to aole, or aohe. With paha, as ae paha, a polite way of assenting when full belief is withheld; ae ka paha. even so, be it so.

Yes; the expression of affirmation, approbation or consent; opposed to aole, or aohe.

With paha, as ae paha, a polite way of assenting when full belief is withheld: ae ka paha, even so, be it so.

s. The name of a worm, a moth-like animal that eats cloth. Isa. 51:8.

2. A worm or bug that bores into wood, rendering it full of holes.

n., Excelling eye, epithet for a councilor (kālaimoku), who had served under three rulers in three generations, and hence was regarded as full of wisdom.

1. adj., First; most excellent; greater; the best.

2. Sharp; full of sharp points; sharp, as a knife; ka hoana oi, the sharp hone; ke apuapu oi, the sharp file.

3. Poor; thin in flesh, that is, having sharp features.

1. adj., First; most excellent; greater: the best.

2. adj., Sharp: full of sharp points; sharp, as a knife; ka hoana oi, the sharp hone; ke apuapu oi. the sharp file.

adj., Full of blotches or pimples; rough with uneven places.

1. adj., Full of blotches or pimples; rough with uneven places.

2. adj., Lumpy.

1. v., To be full of lumps; to be knotty.

2. v., To be pimpled.

1. v., See puka, an opening. To cause to pass through an orifice, as through a doorway or through a hole in a fence, &c.

2. To make a substance full of holes or chinks.

3. To appear in sight, as a ship at a distance.

4. To emerge to light, as from darkness.

5. To publish, as a newspaper.

[Hoo and puka, an opening.]

1. v., To cause to pass through an orifice, as through a doorway or through a hole in a fence.

2. v., To make a substance full of holes or chinks.

3. v., To cause to appear in sight, as a ship at a distance.

4. v., To emerge to light, as from darkness.

5. v., To publish, as a newspaper.

1. nvs., Animation varying from fury and storm to power and majesty; violent, furious, powerful, animated; violence, fury, anger, majesty, animation.

• Examples:
  • Waiho kāhela i ka laʻi ā ahiahi ehuehu mai, lying stretched out in the calm until at evening full of animation.
  • Ā ka laʻi a ʻEhu lā, ehuehu ʻoe ē ka lani lā (song for Kalākaua), and the calm of ʻEhu, you, o chief, appeared with majesty.
  • Kū ana ʻo Mauna Loa, kuahiwi ʻalo ehuehu (song), stands Mauna Loa, hill resisting storms.

2. vs., Healthy, vigorous.

• Related:
  • Less used than ahuahu.

3. n., A kind of rock, used for adzes.

• References:
  • Malo 19.

Full of fury; violent; furious.

1. Reduplication of ʻōlapa #1. Piʻi ʻōlapalapa kona inaina me ka huhū, his wrath flared forth angrily.

2. Same as ʻolapa #2.

3. vs., Full of ravines, projections, cornices, ridges.

v. See MAKU above, to be large. To enlarge; to grow. Hoo. To increase; to be full; to be thick set.

2. To strengthen; to sustain. Hal. 18:35.

3. To call one father or master; to honor. Mat. 23:9.

adj., Dirty; dusty, as when the air is full of dust.

nvt. To chew, munch, masticate, gnash the teeth; grinder, as of a sugar mill; feed dog on sewing machine that holds cloth at the needle. Fig., surly, full of hatred, as eyes. Cf. mama, to chew without swallowing, as kava. Nau kamu, to chew gum. Nau paka, to chew tobacco. Paka nau, chewing tobacco. (PPN ngau.)

adj., Full, as a container of any kind.

adj., Full, as a container of any kind.

kikino, Cell, as in databases or tables.

• Source:
  • Existing dictionary word, Extended meaning
• Examples:
  • Ua piha nā kūʻono o ka pakuhi makaʻaha. The cells of the spreadsheet are full.

1. To be full.

2. To be great with young. Syn: Ua ko.