Wehewehe Wikiwiki Hawaiian language dictionaries

1. nvi. Stifling heat and humidity; acute discomfort, pain, grief, suffering; to be weary, stifling, sultry, stuffy. Ikiiki o ke kaua, fury and heat of war. Ikiiki au i ka hoʻomanawanui ʻana (Ier. 20.9), I am weary with forbearing.

2. (Cap.) n. Name of a month in the summer season. (FS 281.) See month.

3. (Cap.) n. Name for the planet Jupiter.

1. v., To be pressed; to be compelled to do a thing; to be compelled to act or not to act against one's will.

2. To be weary of refraining from. Ier. 20:9.

3. To pant for breath, as one dying.

1. s., A confinedness; want of room.

2. A close, tight room.

3. Severe pain; panting for breath; strangulation; the pangs of death.

4. A siege of a city. Ier. 19:9.

1. adj., Close and hot, as the confined air of a crowded room.

2. Tight, as a bandage or clothes made too small.

s., Name of the fifth month of the Hawaiian year.

1. adj., Close and hot, as the air of a crowded room.

2. adj., Tight, as a bandage or clothes.

1. n., Closeness; lack of air.

2. n., The act of strangling, or the state of being strangled.

3. n., Severe pain.

4. n., The pangs of death.

5. n., Lassitude caused by heat.

6. n., A panting for breath.

7. n., The name of the sixth month of the Hawaiian calendar, corresponding to May. (The names and order of the months varied, however, in different localities.)

1. To be pressed; to be compelled to do a thing.

2. to be harassed; to be vexed.

3. To be weary of refraining from.

4. To pant for breath, as one dying.

Severe pain; to pant for breath, as one dying.

Grief, pain, suffering, as from pressure; to be weary of refraining from. (Ier. 20:9.)

Close and stifling, as a confined room.