Wehewehe Wikiwiki Hawaiian language dictionaries

1. nvi., To rise or swell, as yeast or souring poi; to ferment, leaven, overflow (Isa. 8.7), percolate, effervesce, boil over; to surge or rise to the surface, as emotion; to gush forth; rising, swelling, outburst.

• Examples:
  • Perena hū ʻole, unleavened bread.
  • Hū ka ʻaka, to burst into laughter, guffaw.
  • Hū ka pele, to pour forth lava, erupt.
  • Inā hū aku kou ʻuhane i ka po ʻe pōloli (Isa. 58.10), if your soul has compassion for the hungry people.
  • Hū mai ke aloha no ka ʻāina, love for the homeland swells forth.
  • He hū wale mehe wai lā (Kin. 49.4), unstable as water.
• Related:
  • hoʻohū Caus/sim.; To leaven, cause to rise, inflate, swell, overflow; yeast, baking powder.
• References:
  • Cf. huaʻi.

2. vi. and interjection, To roar, grunt, hum, whistle; huh (interj.)!

• Examples:
  • Hū ka makani, the wind whistles or roars [of things going at great speed].
  • Hū wawā ka nahele, din roaring in the forest [gossip].
• References:
  • PPN fuu.

3. n., A spinning top.

• Examples:
  • Hū oeoe, humming top.
  • Kaula hū, cord used to spin a top, Ho ʻoniniu i ka hū, to spin a top.

4. vi., To depart from the proper course, miss the way.

• Examples:
  • Hū ā puaʻa, off the course like a pig [of one who does not follow a straight and narrow path, as of a drunkard].
• Related:
  • hoʻohū Caus/sim.; To cause someone to deviate from the path; to shoo, drive away, rout.

5. n., Gum, as of the ʻōlapa tree.

6. n., Commoners as a mass.

• Examples:
  • Ē ka hū, ē ka makaʻāinana, aloha ʻoukou (chant by Kamāmalu bidding farewell to Hawaiʻi), O commoners, O citizenry, farewell to you.

7. Variant of hui #2, to unite, join.

• Examples:
  • Ē Lono, e hū ʻia mai ka lani me ka honua (prayer), O Lono, join heaven and earth.

kikino, Yeast; baking powder.

• Source:
  • Existing dictionary word
  • Mānaleo.
• References:
  • See pauka koka.

kikino, Overflow error, as on a calculator display.

• Literally, overflow.

• References:
  • See manu hū.

A top. Hū kani, a humming top.

The grunt of the hog is hū (hoggish men are called ʻukā).