Wehewehe Wikiwiki Hawaiian language dictionaries

Bay, valley (only in place names, as Hanalei, Hanapēpē. Also Hono-, as in Honolulu). (Gram. 8.1; Pukui, Elbert, and Mookini, 1974, 245–7,.) (PPN fanga.)

Nominalizing suffix.

• Cf. ʻana 3, Gram. 6.6.2.
• PPN -fanga [see kilohana 2] and PNP -sanga [see hauhana].

1. vs., Alert.

• Examples:
  • I hāna ka pō, i hāna ke ao, so the night may be alert, the day alert.

2. (Cap.) n., Name of a district and town, East Maui.

n.

1. Ridgepost supporting each end of the ridgepole.

2. Wood shavings (Kamakau). Rare.

1. nvt., Work, labor, job, employment, occupation, duty, office, activity, function, practice, procedure, process, deal, incident, reason, action, act, deed, task, service, behavior; to work, labor, do, behave, commit, make, manufacture, create, transact, perform, prepare, happen; to develop, as a picture; to have a love affair (FS 115); to induce by sorcery; to handle (as a court case); to conduct (as a class). (Translated by many English words, but seldom by ‘work’.)

• Examples:
  • Hana ʻia, made, completed, wrought.
  • Ka haʻi ʻana i ka hana aku, active voice.
  • Poʻe hana, workers, employees.
  • Maikaʻi ka hana, well done.
  • Hana ā maikaʻi, fix.
  • Ka haʻi ʻana i ka hana ʻia mai, passive verb.
  • I … hana, when; as; while; at the time that.
  • I hele aku kona hana, ua lilo ka pāpale, when he went, the hat was gone.
  • Mea hana, tool; task; offering to ʻaumākua gods.
  • Ke hana mai ʻo Pele i kāna hana, when Pele does her work.
  • Ka hana ia a ka loea, ʻo ke akamai paheʻe ʻulu (chant), that is the way an expert does, smart in bowling.
  • ʻO ka hana, ua hana ʻia.
  • the work has been done [a completed task].
  • Hana maikaʻi i ka ʻāina, clear the soil well.
  • ʻAʻohe kona he maʻi maoli, he maʻi hana ʻia, his is not a natural sickness, it is induced by sorcery.
  • Hana ʻia maila ka wai ā ʻono (Puk. 15.25), the waters were made sweet.
• Related:
  • hoʻohana Caus/sim.; To use, employ, cause to work, carry out, administer, manage, encourage; use, employment, management, administration.
    • Luna hoʻohana, manager, administrative head.
    • Noho hoʻohana, to act or serve as manager.
    • Nā mea hoʻohana, tools, implements, or anything to work with.
• References:
  • Cf. hana wale, Puk. 12.47, and many examples below.
  • PNP sanga ; cf. Fijian.

2. vs., Worthless; provoked.

• Examples:
  • ʻAi mai nei hana kanaka a waiho mai nei i nā pā naʻu e holoi. This worthless person ate and left the dishes for me to wash.
• Related:
  • hoʻohana Caus/sim.; To tease, provoke, nag, plague; one who teases or provokes.
• References:
  • Cf. hana wale.

3. Same as kilohana, a tapa.

4. Same as hahana, warm.

• Rare
• References:
  • Cf. hanahana, kōhanahana, mahana, pumehana.
  • PPN fana .

5. n., Notch, as in a tree.

• References:
  • PPN kausanga .