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1. nvi., Recovered from sickness; well, after sickness; to get well, convalesce; filling out, as after loss of weight; sprouting, as a bud.

• Examples:
  • Polapola iki, a little better.
• Related:
  • hoʻopolapola Caus/sim.; To cure, make get well; to fill out, as after sickness.

2. (Cap.) nvs., Tahiti, Borabora; Tahitian.

• Related:
  • ʻŌlelo Polapola, Tahitian language.
• References:
  • PCP Polapola.

3. Same as hēʻī, the Tahitian banana.

4. Reduplication of pola #1; flapping.

• Examples:
  • Lālau koke aʻela i ka lauʻī, ʻawapuhi, kīhae ihola a polapola ihola ma ka ʻāʻī (Kep. 95), quickly grabbing ti leaves, ginger, tearing and flapping them about the neck.

5. (Cap.) n., Star name, paired with the star Melemele.

• Related:
  • ʻŌpae Polapola. Tahitian prawn.

v. To sprout; to shoot out; to grow, as a bud or leaf.

2. To put on or clothe one in large flowing garments; e aahu polapola, e poaka.

3. To recover; to get well from sickness.

s. A sense of fullness in the stomach; pihapiha.

adj. Well; healthy; polapola na maka; bright, as the face of one recovered from sickness; full; flowing, as a garment.

1. Well; healthy; polapola na maka; bright, as the face of one recovered from sickness.

2. Full; flowing, as a garment.

A sense of fullness in the stomach; pihapiha.

1. To sprout; to shoot out; to grow, as a bud or leaf.

2. To put on or clothe one in large flowing garments: e aahu polapola, e poaka.

3. To wrap by winding around.

4. To recover; to get well from sickness.

flowing robe. Land section, Lahaina, Maui.

Bright, as the face of one recovered from illness.

Bright, as the face of one recovered from illness.