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1. Variant of ulana #1.

• Examples:
  • E nana moena ana, plaiting mats.

2. Short for ʻīnana.

• References:
  • Cf. kīnana, pūnana.
  • PPN langa.

3. (Cap.) n., Name of a star (no data).

4. (Cap.) n., Name of a month.

• References:
  • See ʻeʻelekū, month.

5. n., A variety of taro.

6. Similar to manana; to spread.

7. n., A variety of fish (no data).

• References:
  • KL. line 141.

v., To look at an object when it is in sight; to see; to view attentively. 1 Sam. 1:12. To examine carefully; e nana hoi! look! see! behold! E nana i ka maka, to respect persons in judgment. Kanl. 1:17. He mea nanaia mai, a gazing-stock. Heb. 10:33. Hoonana. To cause one to look.

v. See NA. To quiet; to console; to be quieted or consoled, as a child.

2. Hoo. To comfort or sympathize with one. Kin. 37:35.

3. To comfort, as a mourner.

4. To bark; to growl; to snarl.

5. Nana, erroneously for lana, to float. See LANA.

s. A snarling, growling disposition; a finding fault with one.

s. Name of a Hawaiian month answering to the month of March.

particle. Erroneously written for nane; as, i nane, let me see it.

slit open. Land section, Lānaʻi.

1. adj., Bent; broken; separated; scattered.

2. adj., Opened.

1. n., Marriage among blood relatives of the immediate family. (This was a custom only among chiefly families and was practiced in order to increase the rank of royalty.)

2. n., People so related.

n., A month in the old Hawaiian calendar.

n., A snarling, growling disposition; a finding fault with one.

v., 1. To gaze at; to view attentively. To examine carefully: e nānā hoʻi! look! see! behold! E nānā i ka maka, to respect persons in judgment.

for him, his.