Wehewehe Wikiwiki Hawaiian language dictionaries

1. vt., To grope, feel, as with the hands.

• Examples:
  • Kahuna hāhā, an expert who diagnoses, as sickness or pain, by feeling the body.
• References:
  • For. 6:111.
  • PPN faafaa.

2. Same as hā, stalk; striped taro leaves boiled or baked and eaten.

3. n., Trap made of twigs and small branches, for fresh-water fish.

4. n., Lobelias 🌐.

• References:
  • See ʻālula, ʻōhā, ʻōhā kēpau, ʻōhā wai nui.

5. n., Kauaʻi name for ʻapeʻape.

Taro tops, a food of poor people. (A.)

To feel, palpate; to grope, as a blind person. (Kin. 27:12, 21)

Native member of the lobelia family (Brighamia spp.). The flowers of all Hawaiian species are curved like the beak of native nectar-feeding birds, which suck honey from them. Also called ālula. (NEAL 815.)