Wehewehe Wikiwiki Hawaiian language dictionaries

1. n., People, persons, personnel, population, assemblage, group of, company of.

• Examples:
  • ʻEwalu ka poʻe kaua (FS 97), eight groups of warriors.
• References:
  • Gram. 10.4.

2. Plural marker.

• Examples:
  • Ka poʻe wāhine, the women.
  • Poʻe hale, houses.
  • Poʻe nalo meli (Lunk 14.8), swarm of bees.
• References:
  • Gram. 10.4.

3. Variant of poʻi #5.

• References:
  • Kep. 157.

4. n., A native purslane (Portulaca selerocarpa), with narrow, succulent leaves which have many hairs in their axes and white flowers.

hamani, As an ʻopihi from its shell. To remove.

• Source:
  • Variant of poke.
• Related:
  • Also: kuaʻi.

hamani, To throw.

• Source:
  • Niʻihau.
• Examples:
  • E poʻe mai i ke kinipōpō! Throw me the ball!
• Related:
  • Also: huʻu, wiʻo.

Native purslane (Portulaca sclerocarpa) with narrow leaves and whitish flowers. (PE.) Also called ʻihi-mākole.

Persons, people.