Wehewehe Wikiwiki Hawaiian language dictionaries

1. nvs., Tree, plant, wood, timber, forest, stick, pole, rod, splinter, thicket, club; blow or stroke of a club; strength, rigidness, hardness; male erection; to have formed mature wood, as of a seedling; wooden, woody; stiff, as wood.

• Examples:
  • Ua hele ke kino ā lāʻau, the body is stiff in rigor mortis.
• Related:
  • Kumulāʻau, tree.
  • hoʻolāʻau Caus/sim.; To form mature wood, as of a shrub; to gather in trees, as birds.
• References:
  • PPN raʻakau.

2. nvs., Medicine, medical.

• Related:
  • Hoʻohuihui lāʻau, paʻipaʻi lāʻau, chemistry.

3. nvi., Lump or knot in the flesh, as eased by the rubbing kahi massage; to feel such a knot or stiffness; cramp; Charley horse; to have a cramp.

4. n., Picture frame.

5. n., General name for canoe endpiece.

• References:
  • See lāʻau hope, lāʻau ihu.

6. For nights of the moon beginning with Lāʻau see Lāʻau Kū Kahi, Lāʻau Kū Lua, Lāʻau Pau, and Malo 31, 35.

• References:
  • PEP Laʻakau.

kikino, Medicine, medicinal drug, medication; wood.

• Source:
  • Existing dictionary word, Extended meaning
• Related:
  • Inu i ka lāʻau. To take (liquid) medicine.
  • ʻAi i ka lāʻau. To take medicine.
  • Lāʻau kuhikuhi. Prescription drug or medication.
  • Lāʻau kūʻai wale. Over-the-counter drug or medication.
• References:
  • See papa pānela.

General term for end pieces.

Medicine.

Wooden club; blow with a club.

Wood, timber, tree, plant, forest, thicket (PE). Also, kumu lā ʻau, tree.