Wehewehe Wikiwiki Hawaiian language dictionaries

1. n. A surgeonfish (Acanthurus dussumieri), famous for a strong odor. (PPN palangi.)

2. nvi. To stink, smell sour or rancid; a detested person; a kauā, outcast. hoʻo.palani To cause to go sour, rancid.

3. n. A variety of sugar cane, short, purple with deep olive-green cast when young, changing to reddish-yellow on exposure, pith dark. Probably the parent of ʻakoki. Sometimes qualified by hao or ʻula (For. 5:585).

4. n. A variety of sweet potato

5. Also barani n. Brandy. Eng. ʻUla palani, brandy red.

6. (Cap.) Also Farani nvs. France; Frenchman; French; Frank. Eng. Hula Palani (UL 203), same as the paʻi umauma hula.

7. n. Bran. Eng.

iʻoa France; French. Dic. Also Farani. Polenekia Palani. French Polynesia.

1. n., A surgeon fish emitting a rank odor; a flat fish of the enenue class, not a favorite food.

2. n., A species of purple sugar-cane.

3. [Eng.] n., Brandy

4. [Eng.] n., France, French or a Frenchman.

Surgeonfish (Acanthurus dussumieri). The body of this fish is pale yellowish-brown with fine blue longitudinal lines and a yellow band through the eye. It lives in deeper waters outside the reef, growing to 18 inches. It is one of the most important species caught by trap fishermen. Its skin and flesh have a strong odor.

Sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum). Palani is a purple variety, growing more in the higher and exposed highlands. This was the sugarcane of the early Hawaiians. There are at least forty Hawaiian words for varieties of sugarcane. One is hoʻopaʻapaʻa (quarreling) because two men quarreled about naming it. Another is manu lele, (flying bird) involving the return of a wifeʻs love for her husband. (NEAL 77-79.) See Plants: Uses.

Sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum). Aside from raw sugar, which brought the agricultural list its top competitor, sugarcane has many by-products: molasses, alcohol, bagasse, canec, plastics, and fertilizer. In addition, cane tops can be used as cat tle feed, flower heads for home decoration, and leaves for house thatching. Today, sugarcane is munched like candy. (NEAL 77.)

Word of contempt applied to persons seeming dirty and filthy, probably from the fish palani that stinks abominably.

To stink, a word applied to servants in distinction from chiefs.

Cane with deep, olive-green cast changing to reddish-yellow on exposure to the sun. Leaves and sheath are green. Probably the parent of the Molokaʻi ʻakoki and not its mutant. Named after the surgeonfish (Hepatus dussumieri) because of its markings.

brandy; France; French.

1. French. 2. France, (HRH).

1. French. 2. France, (HRH).