Wehewehe Wikiwiki Hawaiian language dictionaries

Huli | Search «hewahewa»: He 13 i loaʻa | Found 13.

1. nvs., A great many, very, vast, in great quantities.

  • Examples:
    • He nui hewahewa nā mea nani a kēia home, there are many, many beautiful things in this home.
    • ʻAʻole o kana mai i ka hewahewa o nā mea ʻai, there were boundless quantities of food.

2. vs., Crazy, demented, wild, aimless; to fail to recognize (Ier. 29.26).

  • Examples:
    • Kā hewahewa, he ua (FS 37), hit wildly, it's raining [let the fight begin].
  • References:

v. See HEWA, to be wrong. To make a mistake; to commit an error; mostly used in the causative.

2. Hoo. To forget one's appearance or name.

3. To mistake one person for another.

4. To be deranged in mind; to be silent and unsociable through alienation of mind.

s. A mistake of one person or thing for another.

2. Derangement of mind from sickness.

3. Sullen silence.

adj. Crazy; unsound in mind; mad. Ier. 29:26.

Hewahewa (hē'-wă-hē'-wă), adj.

/ hē'-wă-hē'-wă / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

Crazy; demented. See hoohewahewa.

Hewahewa (hē'-wă-hē'-wa), n.

/ hē'-wă-hē'-wa / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

1. A mistake in identification.

2. Derangement of mind from sickness. See hoohewahewa.

3. Sullen silence.

Hewahewa (hē'-wă-hē'-wă), v.

/ hē'-wă-hē'-wă / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

To make a mistake; to commit an error; mostly used in the causative. See hoohewahewa and hewa.

High priest of Hawaiʻi who was Kamehamehaʻs Ka- huna nui, keeper of the Kū-kā-ʻili-moku (the feather god). He later became a devoted adherent to the Christian religion and in- fluenced the destruction of the idols and their temples in 1819.

Crazy, demented. (Ier. 29:26.)

Sullen silence; derangement of the mind from sickness; mad. (Ier. 29:26.)

v. hoo-to forget one’s appearance or name, to mistake one person for another, to be deranged in mind.

s. derangement of mind from sickness,

adj. crazy, insane.

E huli iā “hewahewa” ma Ulukau.

Search for “hewahewa” on Ulukau.

Hāpai i wehewehena hou a i ʻole i ʻōlelo hoʻoponopono | Suggest a translation or correction

E hāpai i kahi wehewehena a i ʻole hoʻoponopono no Wehewehe Wikiwiki. | Suggest a translation or correction to the Wehewehe Wikiwiki Community Dictionary for consideration.

Mai hoʻouna mai i noi unuhi ʻōlelo. | This is not a translation service.