Wehewehe Wikiwiki Hawaiian language dictionaries

1. Same as popohe.

• Examples:
  • ʻOki pohe, to cut off the hair only at the top of the head, as formerly by one in mourning.

2. n., The marsh pennywort (Hydrocotyle verticillata 🌐), a small weed known in many parts of the world, the stem creeping, leaf blade round, scalloped, attached near its center to the stem.

• Related:
  • Also: pohepohe.
• References:
  • Neal 659.

v. To cut short; to round off, as the corners; to cut into short pieces.

s. The marshmallows.

2. A small plant like low mallows, the bark of which is used like olona or hemp.

adj. Cut short, as a rope with a knife or with the teeth; cut smoothly off instead of being broken. Lam. Haw. 10:4. He weluwelu ka ka ia, he pohe keia.

2. Round; smoothed by cutting off the corners.

3. Cut into short pieces.

Cut short; cut. into short pieces.

n., A plant of the olonā class the bark of which is used like olonā or hemp.

Same as poke, to cut.