Wehewehe Wikiwiki Hawaiian language dictionaries

1. nvi., to burst, crack, break forth, crash, pop, bang; to ferment (of poi); bursting, cracking, as of explosives or of a whip; flashing of light, breaking of bubbles.

• Examples:
  • Ua pohā ka ʻai, poi is bubbly [in fermentation].
  • Ua pohā ka male, the phlegm has come up into the mouth.
  • Mālama o pohā ka lae, watch out or [you] will crack [your] forehead [get into trouble; be shocked at the high prices].
• Related:
  • hoʻopohā Caus/sim.; To cause to break, burst; to crack, as a whip.
    • Hoʻopohā maila hoʻi ka mea kiʻekiʻe loa i kona leo (2 Sam. 22.14), the most high uttered his voice.
• References:
  • Probably PCP pofa(a).

2. n., The cape gooseberry (Physalis peruviana 🌐), a South American perennial herb in the tomato family, growing wild. Flowers are yellow; round, orange, many-seeded fruits develop singly within the heart-shaped, papery, enlarged calyxes; they are edible raw and are also cooked for jam.

• Related:
  • Called paʻina on Hawaiʻi.
• References:
  • Neal 740–1.

3. Same as pohāpohā, a seaweed.

kikino, Stop, in linguistics.

• Existing dictionary word, Extended meaning

To burst or break out, as a boil. (Puk. 9:9.)

Cape gooseberry (Physalis peruviana), an introduced perennial herb of the tomato family. A small shrub, it grows wild on mountain slopes to 5,500 feet. The fruit is globose with an orange skin covering a sweet, juicy, many-seeded pulp and is edible raw or cooked for jam. It is enclosed in a papery sack. There is a fair market for this jam in Hawaiʻi. (NEAL 740.) Called paʻina on Hawaiʻi island.