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Ua.

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  • In poetry, rain or rains may signify joy, life, growth, greenery; good fortune (light rains, mist); grief, sorrow, and tears (heavy rains); the presence of gods or royalty, sexual relations, beauty; hardship.
  • Fine light rain (much beloved), kili, hoʻokili, kilihune, lilinoe, kili noe, līhau, kilikili noe, kilikilioe, kili nahe, uaoa.
  • Light moving rain, koʻiawe.
  • Fine windblown rain, lelehuna, lelehune, lele ua, leleaka.
  • Chilly rain, kili hau, ua ʻawa.
  • Rain spray, ehu.
  • Showery rain, ua nāulu, pākiʻo, pākiʻokiʻo.
  • Drenching rain, ua hōʻeʻele.
  • The bitter rain, ka ua ʻawa (of grief, tragedy, hardship).
  • Rain downpour, ua lani pili, ua loku.
  • Continuous rain, ua hoʻokina, pīpīnoke.
  • Rain with large drops, ua hekili, pakakū.
  • Slanting rain, ua hikikiʻi.
  • Unexpected rain, ililani.
  • Rainbow-hued rain, uakoko, koʻiʻula.
  • Spring rain, kuāua hope, latter rain, kuāua hope (Biblical).
  • Rain gauge, ana ua.
  • Heiau with offerings for rain, heiau hoʻoulu ua.
  • Thunder without rain, hekili pāmalō.
  • Darkness of rain, ʻeleua.
  • Hilo is famous for rain, as in this saying: ʻeleʻele Hilo, panopano i ka ua, Hilo is black, dark with rain (hardship, grief, trouble).
  • Many rains are named, usually associated with particular places, some on the same island and some on different islands.
  • Some winds and rains have the same name (as Kani-koʻo, Kīpuʻupuʻu, Lauʻawaʻawa, Līlī-lehua, and probably Moaniani-lehua); winds seem to bring the rains.
  • Of the rains identified with islands, 15 are on Oʻahu, 12 on Maui, 9 on Hawaiʻi, and 4 on Kauaʻi. They are nearly always in wet coastal areas (except Lahaina), and almost none in the uninhabited wet areas.
  • The lehua flower is associated with rain and occurs in six of the rains listed here.
  • Rains commonly mentioned in chants and songs (meanings that are obvious, associated places, and name variations are in parentheses): ʻĀpuakea (Koʻolau Poko, Oʻahu), Kanilehua (lehua sounding; Hilo), Kinailehua (quenching lehua; Panaʻewa, Hawaiʻi), Kīpuʻupuʻu (Waimea, Hawaiʻi), also a wind, Lani haʻahaʻa (low heavens; Hāna, Maui), Mololani (well-kept; Kahaluʻu, Oʻahu), Tuahine or Kuahine (sister; Mānoa, Oʻahu), Waʻahila (Mānoa and Nuʻuanu, Oʻahu).
  • Other rains: Heʻenehu (nehu fish run; Hilo), Hehipua-hala (stepping on pandanus flowers; Poʻo-kū, Kauaʻi), Hōliʻoliʻo (or Hōliʻo; Hawaiʻi and Oʻahu), Kaʻau (Kohala, Hawaiʻi), Kaʻele-loli (or Kaʻekelo; Makiki, Oʻahu), Kani-koʻo (cane tapping, with Koʻolau wind), Kini-maka-lehua (many lehua), Kiʻo-wao (upland; Nuʻu-anu, Oʻahu, and Wai-ʻaleʻale, Kauaʻi), Kui-ʻilima (Honolulu), Kūkala-hale (Honolulu), also wind name, Lani-paʻina (crackling heavens; ʻUlu-palakua, Maui), Lauʻawa (or Lauʻawaʻawa; Hāna, Maui), Lēhei (leaping; Maka-wao, Maui), Lena (yellow; Maui and Hanalei, Kauaʻi), Līlī-lehua (lehua chill; Pālolo, Oʻahu; and Wai-ehu, Maui), Lū-lau-kō (scattering cane leaves; Kauaʻi), Maka-lau-koa, Malu-koʻi (Kaha-luʻu, Oʻahu), Moaniani-lehua (wafted lehua fragrance; Puna, Hawaiʻi), Moelehua (sleeping lehua), Nōweo-ʻula (red brightness; Nā-pili, Maui), Ōnini-puaʻiʻo (Hāna, Maui), Pali-loa (long cliff), Papa-wai (Olowalu, Maui), Paʻū-pili (moistening pili grass; Lahaina, Maui), Peʻe-pā-pōhaku (hide [at] stone wall; Kau-pō, Maui), Peʻe-pūhala-hīnano (hiding pandanus male flowers), Pili-nahe, Pōʻai-hala (surrounding pandanus; Kaha-luʻu, Oʻahu; also Pōʻai-hale), Poʻo-kole, Poʻolipilipi (adze-head; Kalihi, Oʻahu, and Hilo), Poʻo-nui (big head), Pōpō-kapa (tapa bundle; also Pōpō-ua, rain bundle), Pūnāwai-ea (rain spray), Pupū-hale (remaining near house; Hāmākua, Hawaiʻi), Ua-a-ka-līpoa (rain of the līpoa seaweed), Uamakalaukoa (rain on koa leaves; Nuʻuanu, Oʻahu), ʻUlalena (yellow red; Kaʻala mountain, Oʻahu, and Haʻikū, Maui), also a wind.
• References:
  • See sayings that are tributes to rain (ʻāpaʻa, ʻehu #4, kāhiko) and other poetic references (lū lehua, poʻi #1, pūʻukiʻuki).
  • See Kūlanihākoi, ua, downpour, Hilo, and chant, lolohe #1.

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  • In a small area while sun is shining, sometimes considered an omen of misfortune. Kualā, ua kualā.
  • Rain distribution. Ka ili o ka ua.
  • Rainfall. Ua.
  • Orographic rain distribution. Ua pili pali.
  • Rain forest. Nahele maʻukele.
  • Rain map. Palapala ʻāina ua.
  • Rain shadow. Lulu ʻalaneo.
  • Rain water. Wai ua.
  • Rainy side, as of a mountain. Alo ua.

he ua.

h. he ua; hai. e ua ka ua.

hai. e alakai, e ao i ka paikau.

h. he poe ha hai mahope.

u'ă.

U'-a.