Wehewehe Wikiwiki Hawaiian language dictionaries

1. vt., To ration food or water, as in time of drought.

2. vs., Small, thin, fine, as a thread.

3. vs., Stilled, hushed, as worshippers.

• Examples:
  • E maukoli ke anaina, let the assembly keep still.

4. vt., To offer to the gods, as food.

• Examples:
  • Eia ka ʻawa, a nāu ponoʻī nō e maukoli aku i kō akua iā Kūkāʻilimoku (prayer), here is kava, for you indeed to offer to your god, Kūkāʻilimoku.

5. vs., Constant, persevering.

• Rare

v. Mau and koli, to trim or pare off. To divide out food sparingly each day for one's self or family in a time of famine; also, to divide out water in time of drought.

2. To make an offering stingily or on a small scale to the gods.

3. To live along from day to day when one is expected to die.

4. To be constant; to be persevering; ke maukoli nei i ka hana, i ka hele, aohe molowa.

5. To make or to be small or little; to draw out into fineness.

s. The worship or sacrifice rendered to the gods.

2. One who worships or sacrifices to the gods.

3. Any small diminutive thing; he maawe.

1. The worship or sacrifice rendered to the gods.

2. Hush; stillness that settles over a group of worshipers.

3. A devout worshiper.

4. A word applied to anything thin, small, thread-like; a small twist of any fibrous material; he maawe; a fiber.

1. Keep still; be quiet. Word used by the priests to quiet worshippers: E maukoli ka lehulehu, Let the multitude be still.

2. To make little memorial offerings to the gods.

3. To be constant; to be persevering; to continue on from day to day.

4. To make small and thin; to be thin or fine.

[Mau, a kind of food, and koli, to trim or pare off.] To divide out food sparingly each day for one's self or family in a time of famine; also, to divide out water in time of drought.

To make an offering stingily or on a small scale to the gods.