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vt., Cruel, unmerciful, heartless; to abuse, treat cruelly.

  • Examples:
    • Mai hainā wale i ka holoholona, do not abuse the animal.
    • Mea haina, cruel person, tyrant.

1. nvi., A saying, declaration, statement, explanation; answer, as to a riddle; confession; solution; the two (or sometimes more) last verses of a song that usually begin with the word haʻina and that repeat the theme of the song, or the name of the person to whom the song is dedicated; to sing the haʻina of a song; to tell, confess.

  • Examples:
    • Haʻina hou, to sing the haʻina again.
    • Haʻina ʻia mai ana ka puana: see puana #1.
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2. n., A breaking, as of a stick or law; a break.

3. n., Verb.

n., Offering, sacrifice.

  • Examples:
    • Ka haina ʻawa, offering of kava.
    • Ka haina kanaka (KL. line 2098), human sacrifice.
  • References:
    • Cf. hai, to sacrifice.

kikino, Solution, answer to a problem.

  • Source:
    • Existing dictionary word, Spelling variant
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s., Hai, to speak, and ana. A speaking; a declaration.

1. v., A verb formed from the contracted hai ana. See hai. To tell; to relate; to declare; to speak.

2. To break, as a command; as a law. See hai #1.

3. To break, as a stick; hence,

4. To reject; to destroy; to take no care of, as one sick. NOTE.—The ideas of speaking, declaring, &c., seem to be nearly connected in Hawaiian with breaking.

1. s., A speaking; a declaration; a conversation.

2. A breaking, as of a stick or other thing; a breaking of a law.

v., To abuse; to be stingy of food; to withhold food from those who deserve it.

adj., Cruel; unmerciful; hard hearted.

n., [Hai, to speak, and ana participial ending.] A speaking; a declaration.

Haina

iʻoaproper noun / hā'i-nā' / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

to be cruel. Land section, Hamakua, Hawaii.

Nā LepiliTags: geography Hawaiʻi

v., [Contraction of haiia, passive of the verb hai, to tell.] Tell; confess; declare; speak. (Used imperatively.)

1. v., To be stingy of food.

2. v., To withhold anything from those who deserve it.

3. v., To forsake.

4. v., To act unkindly; to be ungrateful; to be unmindful of.

5. v., To abuse.

1. n., A declaration; a conversation.

2. n., A breaking, as of a stick or other thing.

3. n., A breaking of a law.

haina

ʻaʻanostative verb / ha'i-nā' / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

adj., Cruel; unmerciful; hard-hearted.

Land section, Hāmākua qd., Hawaiʻi.

  • * Pronunciation and meaning are uncertain.

Nā LepiliTags: Hawaiʻi

Verb.

declaration, answer, statement.

v. to reject, destroy. Hai-na, v. hai and ana contracted; to tell, relate, to publish, prophecy declare, speak.

adj. cruel, unmerciful, hard hearted. Hai-na, s. a declaration.

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