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1. nvi., Red, scarlet; brown, as skin of Hawaiians; to appear red.

• Examples:
  • Piʻi ka ʻula, to blush, flush.
  • A ʻula! ʻUla ka maka! Red! Red-eyed! [a rude remark, often said while drawing down an eyelid, a way of wishing ill luck].
• Related:
  • hōʻula Caus/sim.; To redden, make red.
• References:
  • Cf. ʻulaʻula.
  • PPN kula .

2. n., Short for koaʻe ʻula, red-tailed tropic bird.

3. nvs., Sacred; sacredness; regal, royal (probably so called because red was a sacred color).

• Examples:
  • Ka makani ʻula, the sacred spirit.
• References:
  • Cf. ʻaha ʻula, ʻūlāleo.

4. n., Blood.

• Examples:
  • He ʻula waiwai, blood of great value, as royal blood.

5. n., Agate.

• References:
  • Puk. 30.12.

6. Same as ʻula ʻai hāwane.

7. n., A ringing in the ears, as due to rising in altitude, believed by some to be a sign that one is being talked of.

• Examples:
  • Ke kani mai nei ka ʻula o koʻu pepeiao, [I] hear my ear ringing.

8. n., Ghost, spirit.

• Examples:
  • Kapuaʻikaʻula (Oʻahu place name), footprint [of] spirits.
• References:
  • Cf. ʻūlāleo.

nvs. Purplish red, dark red, as of a Rhode Island Red chicken; a red cock; formerly, a black cock with red neck feathers and red rump feathers. See ex., uakea 2.

1. Reduplication of ʻula #1; bay, as a horse.

• Examples:
  • ʻUlaʻula o ke ahi, the red of fire; figuratively, a flush of intoxication, newly distilled liquor.
  • ʻIli ʻulaʻula a naʻau ʻulaʻula, venom-tongued and heart filled with hate.
• Related:
  • hōʻulaʻula Caus/sim.; To redden, make red.
    • Mea hōʻulaʻula lehelehe, lipstick.
    • Mea hōʻulaʻula papālina, rouge.
• References:
  • PPN kulakula .

2. n., Various red snappers of the family Lutjanidae 🌐 as Etelis marshi.

• Related:
  • Varieties are qualified by the terms hiwa, koaʻe (tropic bird, perhaps named because of the long streamer on the fishʻs tail thought to resemble the bird), maoli, ʻōpūlauoho.

3. n., A native variety of taro, with red or purple petioles, small leaf blades with purple piko, reddish flowers, the corms used for both poi and table taro, grown in wetland and upland culture.

• Related:
  • ʻUlaʻula may be qualified by the terms kumu, moano, and poni.
• References:
  • Whitney 50–52.

4. The cardinal, Kentucky cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis 🌐), established in about 1930

5. n., Blood.

6. n., A red tapa.

7. n., A variety of sugar cane.

• References:
  • HP 222, 225.

nvs. Red dye from noni-root bark; red, as tapa dyed thus. Lehua pūnoni ʻula ke kai o Kona, ke kai pūnoni ʻula i ʻōweo ʻia (chant), lehua flower that colors red the sea of Kona, the sea dyed red with scarlet. hoʻo.pū.noni To dye red with this dye.

1. n., Water-soluble colloidal ocherous earth, used for coloring salt, for medicine, for dye, and formally in the purification ceremony called hiʻuwai; any red coloring matter; according to Dr. Frank Tabrah (Kam. 76:149), brick-red soil containing hematite.

• Examples:
  • Ua ʻalaea (For. 4:399), red rain [red of the rainbow].
• References:
  • See ʻiʻo ʻalaea, kuhi ʻalaea.
  • PCP kalaea.

2. n., Flesh-like redness, especially the dark red meat close to the spine of some fish, as of the aku.

3. n., Annatto dye plant (Bixa orellana 🌐), a tropical American shrub or small tree, bearing fruit with scarlet seeds, used for dyeing.

• Related:
  • Sometimes called ʻalaea lāʻau to distinguish from the earth; locally also called lipstick plant.
  • Also: kūmauna.
• References:
  • Neal 589.

4. n., Tribe or clan; people in a district who have intermarried.

5. n., Bad breath, halitosis.

6. n., Fore part of thigh; long narrow thigh muscle.

• References:
  • And.

1. n., Goatfish (Parupeneus multifasciatus 🌐).

• Related:
  • The young are called ʻāhua or ʻōhua; the red color was believed caused by eating lehua flowers.
  • The name may be qualified by the terms ʻau kī, kea (P. chryserydros), pāpaʻa, ukali, ukali ulua.

2. nvi., Pale red color, as of the moano fish. Figuratively, to bloom.

• Examples:
  • Moano ka lehua (For. 6:293), the lehua flowers become red.

3. n., A native variety of sugar cane, named for the fish; a red cane becoming dark-purple; pith dark-brown.

• References:
  • HP 224.

4. n., A variety of taro.

• References:
  • HP 33.

s., Red dust in a road; the red dust of a pali; red dust generally.

2. A kind of red chalk in which nothing will grow.

3. A kind of sea-wood, blackish; a species of limu.

1. n., A red or brown clay used to color the water in the religious ceremony known as hiuwai.

2. n., Red dirt; a kind of Spanish brown coloring matter dug from the earth.

3. n., Any red coloring matter; a dye for tapa; red ochre.

4. n., A group of kindred individuals.

5. n., A family, tribe or clan.

6. n., The descendants of servants: The descendants of Keopuolani are the alaea of Nahienaena. (Obsolete.)

[Hamo, rubbed over, and ula, red.]

1. A kind of tapa colored or stained red.

2. A red stain or color.

3. The act or process of fixing a red color.

nvs. Red color, red ocher color; stained red, as with ocherous earth; red, as earth.

n., Red eyeball; red rainbow segment; cloud with red hues of rainbow; variety of red tapa; figuratively, fury, anger.

adj. Ula and koko, blood. Red, as fire, or anything painted bright red; red, as blood, or blood red. NOTE.—Sometimes the last a falls out in speaking, thus, ula—koko.

1. n., Two kinds of trees: see ʻōhiʻa ʻai and ʻōhiʻa lehua.

• References:
  • PCP k(a,o)(f,s)ika.

2. n., Tomato. See ʻōhiʻa lomi.

3. n., A native variety of sugar cane: deep-red and green striped cane when young, becoming bronze-red and yellow-brown on exposure (like leaves and flowers of the ʻōhiʻa ʻai, the source of its name); leaves somewhat variegated.

• References:
  • HP 222, 225.

4. n., A variety of taro.

5. n., A red birthmark, said to be caused by the pregnant mother's longing for mountain apples (ʻohiʻa ʻai) and eating them.

6. vs., Tabooed, as food patches during famine, so-called because people did not eat from their taro patches, but from upland ʻōhiʻa ʻai, ti, and sweet potatoes (Ii 77).

1 Having the color of sand; yellowish-red; sandy: Umiumi ehu, sandy beard.

2. Having or tinged with a red or reddish hue; flushed with red; florid; ruddy.

1. vs., Raw, as meat; inflamed; red, as a raw wound or as red earth.

• Examples:
  • Kole ka ihu, nose inflamed with cold.
  • Kole ka waha, wrangling and quarrelsome.
  • Kole ke ahi, fire that won't burn because of the dampness of the wood.
  • Kole ka ʻāina, the land is bare and red.
  • Mālama o kole ka lae, careful or your forehead will be skinned.
• Related:
  • hoʻokole Caus/sim.; Same as hoʻokolekole.
• References:
  • Cf. hakukole, kolekole, mākole, ʻōkole kaʻaka, koaka.
  • PPN tole.

2. n., Weak and spent, as an old plant.

• References:
  • Cf. ʻakole, mūʻokole.

3. n., Surgeonfish (Ctenochaetus strigosus 🌐).

• Examples:
  • Kole maka onaona, sweet-eyed kole [said of attractive people, as the eye of this fish is considered beautiful].

4. nvt., Story; to tell stories, talk.

• Source:
  • English.

1. n., A kind of dark, branchy seaweed.

2. n., Red dust in a road; the red dust of a pall [hill or precipice]; red dust generally.

A variety of yam (uhi) having tuber with white flesh and red skin; vine and its wings green, petiole red, veins of blade red and green.

1. n., The flower of the ʻōhiʻa tree (Metrosideros macropus 🌐, Metrosideros collina 🌐 subsp. Metrosideros polymorpha 🌐); also the tree itself. The lehua is the flower of the island of Hawaiʻi, as designated in 1923 by the Territorial legislature; it is famous in song and tale. Figuratively, a warrior, beloved friend or relative, sweetheart, expert (see lehua #9). The plant has many forms, from tall trees to low shrubs, leaves round to narrow and blunt or pointed and smooth or woolly. The flowers are red, rarely salmon, pink, yellow, or white. The wood is hard, good for flooring and furniture, formerly used for images, spears, mallets. It grows abundantly in wet areas (see ex., ʻūpolu). It was believed that picking lehua blossoms would cause rain.

• Related:
  • For rain and wind names associated with lehua see Kanilehua, Kinailehua. Kinimakalehua, Kiu Wai Lehua, Līlīlehua, Mounianilehua, Moelehua.
• References:
  • See nāpolupolu, pōkiʻi #1, ʻūpolu.
  • Neal 637-8.
  • See also lū lehua, Moaʻe Lehua, ʻōiwi #2 (chant).
  • Cf. Marquesan heʻua (Lavondès, 1975, pp. 193–4.)

2. vs., Laden, as a lehua tree with beautiful blossoms.

• Examples:
  • Ke hele lā ka papa ʻaina a ua aliʻi nei ā lehua, the feast table of this aforementioned chief was beautifully supplied.

3. n., Rainbow-colored mother-of-pearl shell used for fishing lure.

4. n., A variety of taro, used for red poi.

• Related:
  • Cultivars may be qualified by the terms keʻokeʻo (white) or maoli (native).
• References:
  • TC 4.

5. n., Globe amaranth (Gomphrena globosa 🌐).

• Also: lehua mau loa, lehua pepa, leihua.

6. n., A variety of yam; the stem has red wings and the tuber has light pinkish flesh.

• References:
  • HP 168.

7. (Cap.) n., Name of the small island just west of Niʻihau. As the westernmost of the Hawaiian Islands (except for the Northwest Hawaiian Islands), Lehua is associated with a setting sun (see chant, kalakalaʻihi). In poetry, the extent of the Hawaiian Islands is shown by coupling Lehua Island and Haʻehaʻe and Kumukahi on East Hawaiʻi (see welo #2, welona). A breeze is named for this island.

8. Pas/imp. of lehu #1.

9. n., Expert, as in fishing.

• Related:
  • hoʻolehua Caus/sim.; Swift, expert, strong.

v., To be red; to be inflamed; to have red or inflamed eyes. See makole.

2. To be red like the flame of a lamp which has burnt all night.

v., See hea, v., to be red. To imprint with spots; to stain, especially with red colors; to be smeared, as with red dirt.

n. A species of weke (Mulloidichthys vanicolensis). The color effect of a school of weke ʻula is not red but yellow. They show themselves red when taken out of the water. Lit., red weke.

1. s., Red dirt; a kind of Spanish brown dug from the earth.

2. Any red coloring matter; red ochre. Isa. 44:13.

vs. Gorgeously red, filled with sunshine, ever-beautiful; flushed red, as the skin; gorgeous. Mau loa nō koʻu mahalo nui i ka nani pūnono o Kahana (song), my great admiration for the gorgeous beauty of Kahana remains always. hoʻo.pū.nono To make attractive with bright or red colors, to dress or appear gorgeous.

s., Ahu, a garment, and ula, red.

1. A red feathered cloak; a cloak made of the feathers of the oo and the red feathers of the iiwi, worn by kings and high chiefs; a gorgeous dress. Laieik. 112.

2. A kind of fish net; ka upena puni, a haku a maikai.

[Ahu, a garment, and ula, red.] A red-feathered cloak; a cloak made of the feathers of the oo and the red feathers of the iiwi, worn by kings and high chiefs; a gorgeous dress. (Laieik, p. 112.) (The feathers are woven into olona nets of the finest mesh called upena-puni and upena nukunuku-aula.)

n.

1. Measles; red spots of measles

2. Dotted swiss or other cloth with red spots; red spots.

s. Leho and ula, red. A species of leho of a red color; a red shell fish.

[Leho and ula, red.] A species of leho of a red color; a red shell fish.

n. A red track, as in well-trod red earth. Ke alanui maʻawe ʻula a Kanaloa, the red track pathway of Kanaloa [the western sky].

adj. Red; bright red, as blood; like uluhiwa, dark red; purple.

[Noni, a root used in dying red.] Burnt red; colored red; wela nononi ka io i ke ahi.

n. Large woody vines (Bougainvillea spp.) from Brazil, bearing during their long flowering time masses of bright-colored bracts, which accompany small hidden flowers. Flower bracts are purple-red, rose-red, brick-red, and orange to whitish. (Neal 337–8.) Eng. Also pua kepalō.

nvs., Red streaked or dotted with dark, said of red feathers and a type of red feather cloak; to be such.

vs. A bright-red percale; a vivid red, brandy red.

Kind of red chalk, sterile for growth; red dust in a road; red dust, generally.

v., To fade, as kapa or cloth colored; to lose the color; to fade out; he akeakea ka ulaula, he ula akeakea ka palapala, the red is faded out, a faded red is the printing.

nvs., Stained red, inflamed, reddened; flattened and destroyed, as by lava; blood red; a blood sacrifice, as hog or man.

• Examples:
  • Kā ia heʻa hala o Kaliʻu (song), this destroyed pandanus of Kaliʻu is struck [Pele's destruction of Hiʻiaka's pandanus trees].
• References:
  • Cf. heka, kiliheʻa, kīpalaheʻa.

v. To be red or sore, as inflamed eyes; to be stained or colored red.

1. To sacrifice human life by means of the hea.

2. To be blear-eyed.

3. To be red or sore, as inflamed eyes.

4. To be stained or colored red; to redden.

1. n., A wrasse fish of the hīnālea type (Gomphosus varius). Literally, brain biting.

• Related:
  • Also: hīnālea ʻakilolo.
  • This fish was used by priests as the pani #2 or closing medicine for head diseases. The taro or sugar cane of the same name might substitute.

2. n., A variety of sugar cane, striped with green and deep purplish-red when young, with yellow and red when older; named for the fish.

3. n., A variety of taro.

1. adj., Raw, as meat not fully cooked.

2. Inflamed; red, as an inflamed wound.

3. Used adverbially, you are denied; you are nothing, as in the sentence kolekole kou maka, i. e., the corner of your eye is red or pulu; down! you see that you are up a stump. See also kolekolemaka.

1. adj., Raw, as meat not fully cooked.

2. adj., Inflamed; red, as an inflamed wound.

3. adj., Used proverbially, as you are denied; you are nothing, as in the sentence kolekole kou maka, that is, the corner of your eye is red or pulu; down! you see that you are up a stump. See also kolekolemaka. Equivalent to "nothing doing."

1. vi., To move back and forth rapidly; jerky pushing or sawing motion.

• References:
  • Cf. helohelo, hula helo, ʻilihelo, ʻōhelo #2, ʻōhelo #3.

2. n., Ramrod.

3. nvs., Red, as ʻōhelo berries; rosy.

• Related:
  • Kai helo, a red sauce made of fermented shrimps, salt, and coconut cream.
• References:
  • Cf. hehelo, helohelo, ʻōhelo.
  • Probably PPN felo.

1. nvs., Glow, as of sunrise or fire, red.

• Examples:
  • Wena ʻula, red glow.
  • Hōʻike ʻo Pele i kona nani, ka ʻula wena i ka maka o ke ao (song), Pele reveals her beauty, the rosy glow in the countenance of the cloud.

2. n., A close relationship, blood relative.

• Examples:
  • Hehoahānau kēnā e loaʻa ai ka wena, that is a cousin in whom there is a close blood tie.

v. To be or appear red, as the end of a blaze of fire, or of a lamp; to be red. Isa. 63:2.

s. Redness; a scarlet color. Puk. 25:4. Red, v. 5; ua like ka ulaula me ka weo; name of a red fish. See ULA.

Red; rosy; reddish; blushing; he helohelo; slight red.

v., To be or appear red, as the end of a blaze of fire, or of a lamp; to be red. Isa. 63:2.

s., Redness; a scarlet color. Puk. 25:4. Red, v., 5; ua like ka ulaula me ka weo; name of a red fish. See ula.

adj., Red, as a blaze seen in the night; dark red, as soil. Written also ʻulaʻula.

v., To be or appear red, as the end of a blaze of fire, or of a lamp; to be red. Also written ʻulaʻula.

s. The name of a bird on Hawaii; a i kani aku ka leo o ka apapane. Laieik. 29. It has red feathers. Hulu apapane, the red feathers of the apapane.

n., Red dust in a road, red dust.

1. Redup. of wili #1. Pā wiliwili, blowing of wind in all directions. hoʻo.wili.wili Redup. of hoʻowili; to swirl, circle. Hoʻowiliwili ka ua i ka ʻino, the rain swirls in the storm. Hoʻowiliwili ka iʻa, the fish swim in circles (PPN wiliwili.)

2. n. A Hawaiian leguminous tree (Erythrina sandwicensis, formerly called E. monosperma), found on dry coral plains and on lava flows, somewhat spiny, with short thick trunk. Each leaf has three ovate leaflets; flowers are clustered near branch ends and range in color from red to orange, yellow, white; pods contain red, oblong seeds, used for leis. The wood is very light and formerly was used for surfboards, canoe outriggers, net floats. (Neal 458–60.) See ex., pua #1.

s., Red earth; the red clay found in different places; he alaea, he lepo ulaula.

adj., Reddish; raw, as meat half cooked; red; flushed with red; uncooked in the oven.

adj., Reddish; raw, as meat; red; flushed with red.

n., Red earth; red clay found in different places; he alaea, he lepo ulaula.

adj., Mu and kole, raw; red. Red; inflamed, as the eyes; mukolekole na maka.

adj. Mu and kole, raw; red. Red; inflamed, as the eyes; mukolekole na maka.

1. nvt., Feather standard, symbolic of royalty; segment of a rainbow standing like a shaft (also a sign of royalty); to brush, sweep, switch (kā- #2 + hili).

• Examples:
  • Haku ʻia naʻe hoʻi ka hulu o ka moa i kāhili i mua o nā aliʻi; kāhili ʻia naʻe hoʻi kō kua (FS 101), chicken feathers indeed are woven into a standard for the presence of the chiefs; your back is brushed by the kāhili.
• Related:
  • Paʻa kāhili, kāhili bearer.
  • Kū kāhili, one standing by a kāhili or carrying it.
  • Kāhili pulu, to clear away mulch.
  • hoʻokāhili Caus/sim., to brush or fan gently.
• References:
  • See uhao and kāhili chants, ʻouʻou #1 and uluaoʻa #2.

2. n., The crape myrtle (Lagerstroemia indica 🌐), an ornamental shrub from China, with small oval leaves and panicles of pink, white, or purple crapy flowers.

• References:
  • Neal 618.

3. n., A small tree (Grevillea banksii 🌐) from Australia, related to the silky oak, ʻoka kilika, but the leaves with fewer subdivisions and the flowers red or cream-white. This is a later application of kāhili to a plant. Flowers not used for lies on head or around neck because of it irritating hairs, but made into leis for hats by sewing alternate rows of flower clusters and own leaves on pandanus band.

• References:
  • Neal 321.
  • See haʻikū.

4. n., Kāhili ginger (Hedychium gardnerianum 🌐), from the Himalaya region; much like the white ginger but with a more open flower head, the flowers with narrow yellow segment and one bright-red stamen apiece.

• Related:
  • Also: ʻawapuhi kāhili.
• References:
  • Neal 253–4.

5. n., A seaweed, probably Turbinaria ornata 🌐.

vs.

1. Red, redness; rosy-cheeked; red-faced, as from sunburn; sunburned, bronzed. Nono ʻula, to flush, blush. Cf. pūnono.

2. Full of holes, perforated, moth-eaten; oozing, seeping out, as water in the sand; seepage. Cf. hānonono.

v. To be fresh or red in the face from exercise; to be sunburnt or red from the heat of the sun; e ula na papalina i ka wela o ka la.

To be fresh or red in the face from exercise; to be sunburnt or red from the heat of the sun; e ula na papalina i ka wela o ka la.

1. n., Ti, a woody plant (Cordyline terminalis 🌐) in the lily family, native to tropical Asia and Australia. It consists of a branched or unbranched, slender, ringed stem, ending in a cluster of narrow-oblong, leaves 30 to 60 cm long, from among which at times rises a large panicle of small, light-colored flowers. The leaves were put to many uses by the Hawaiians, as for house thatch, food wrappers, hula skirts, sandals; the thick, sweet roots were baked for food or distilled for brandy.

• Related:
  • Besides green-leaved tis, which rarely fruit, many ornamental varieties are grown in gardens, having leaves wide to narrow, large to small, the colors purple, crimson, scarlet, rust, pink, or green, striped or plain.
  • Red tis may have red flowers and berries.
  • Green ti leaves are still believed to afford protection from spirits and to purify a menstruating woman.
• References:
  • Neal 203–4.
  • Nānā 190–2.
  • See heʻe #2, hōlua kī.
  • PPN tii .

2. n., The Spanish needle (Bidens pilosa 🌐), a weed from tropical America, a kind of daisy with simple or compound leaves, small yellow flower heads, and narrow black bristle-tipped fruits.

• Related:
  • Also: kī nehe.
• References:
  • Neal 844.
  • Cf. koʻokoʻolau.

3. vt., To shoot or aim, as with a gun; to squirt water, as with a syringe; to blow from the mouth, as a fisherman spitting chewed kukui nut on the sea to quiet it; to spit, as an angry cat; to travel fast, jet, hurry, especially on horseback (Kauaʻi).

• Related:
  • hoʻokī Caus/sim.; to cause to shoot; to sick on, as a dog; to make a cat spit; to snort; emitted.
• References:
  • Cf. kai kī, kani.
  • PCP tii .

4. nvt., Bundle of 40 pandanus leaves, sorted for size and length and set aside for plaiting; to sort leaves for such a bundle.

5. Same as ʻamakihi, a bird.

6. nvt., Key, latch; key, pitch, and clef in music; to lock, as a door; to wind or set, as a clock; to roll up, as a mat.

• Source:
  • English.
• Examples:
  • E kī aku i ka puka ā paʻa, lock the door fast.

7. n., Trigger of a gun.

8. Tea.

• Source:
  • English.

9. interjection, Gee.

• Source:
  • English.

n., A well-trained, clever person; expert. Literally, red brow [red being the sacred color].

• References:
  • Cf. lae oʻo.

n.

1. A strong mountain wind, often destructive, at Lahaina, Maui. Lit., the red rain [referring to red soil washed away by a storm]. Ke kukui pio ʻole i ke Ka-ua-ʻula, the light not extinguished by Ka-ua-ʻula [in praise of Lahaina Luna school].

2. (Not cap.) Kind of soft, reddish porous stone used for polishing and smoothing and as sinker for octopus lure.

n., The ornamental cannas (Canna indica 🌐, forms and hybrids), large tropical American herbs, with large oval or narrow leaves and large red or red and yellow flowers. The round black seeds are worn in leis and are also placed in fruit shells of the laʻamia for hula rattles. Cannas are both cultivated and wild in Hawaiʻi.

• Related:
  • Also: liʻipoe.
• References:
  • Neal 263–4.

1. Same as pūkai #1.

2. nvs., Red of tapa or malo dyed with noni juice (Malo 49); a red tapa used in kuni ceremonies.

• References:
  • See wauke puakai.

1. nvs., Cooked crisp, as pig; overdone, burned, parched; scab, of a sore; crust.

• Examples:
  • ʻIli pāpaʻa lā, sunburned or tanned skin.
  • ʻAʻohe nao ʻai i ka pāpaʻa, what a calamity to eat the burned food [a calamity].
• Related:
  • hoʻopāpaʻa Caus/sim.; To make crisp, brittle; to burn, scorch.
    • Hoʻopāpaʻa palaoa, to toast bread.
    • Palaoa hoʻopāpaʻa, toast.
  • Also: paʻapaʻa.
• References:
  • Cf. palaoa pāpaʻa, pāpaʻa palaoa and saying, kūmau #2.
  • PEP paka .

2. n., Slice, as of bread; uncut piece.

• References:
  • Cf. pāpaʻa hao, pāpaʻa lepo, pāpaʻa palaoa, pāpaʻa pelena.

3. n., Cluster of tiny red and yellow feathers tied together fanwise, as presented to a chief to be used for featherwork.

• Related:
  • Also: paʻaʻā #1.

4. n., A red sugar cane with light-brown fibers; it has an odor similar to burnt sugar, hence its name. Used in love sorcery.

5. n., Bark, as of trees.

6. Same as pākiʻi #2, fish.

7. (Cap.) n. Wind names.

v. See KOLE and MAKOLE, red, as raw flesh. To be raw, as flesh; to be red, as inflamed eyes.

[Hoo and makole or kole, red, as raw flesh.]

1. To make raw, as flesh; to be red, as inflamed eyes. The word is also used in humorous raillery, as ua halawai oe me ka makole, equivalent to paoa oe, not lucky.

v. To be red like blood; to be red with heat. See KOKO.

s. A heat so intense as to be red. Dan. 3:22. A red heat.

A heat so intense as to be red; a red heat.

[Koko, blood.] To be red like blood; to be red with heat.

1. v., To be red.

2. v., To be red like the flame of a lamp which has burnt all night.

3. v., To blush; to have the color of sunburn.

s. Maawe and ula, red; brown. A path or road so much trodden as to cause the red or brown earth to appear.

[Maawe, a track, and ula, red; brown.] A path or road so much trodden as to cause the red or brown earth to appear.

1. nvs., Ripple; ridge, as of twilled cloth or a tapa beater; groove; streak on tapa; grain of wood or stone; thread of a screw; crevice, as in rocks; grooved.

• Related:
  • Kui nao, screw; literally, nail with thread.
• References:
  • See nao-hoʻopaʻi.

2. vt., To thrust the hands into an opening, as in fishing; to probe.

• References:
  • PPN nao.

3. Intensifying idiom following ʻaʻole or ʻaʻohe and usually followed by words expressing damage, havoc, distress, pain.

• Examples:
  • ʻAʻohe nao ka pilikia! How very much trouble! ʻAʻohe nao i ka ua! What didn't the rain do! ʻAʻohe nao i ka ʻeha! Terrible pain!
• References:
  • Gram. 4.6.
  • See ex., pāpaʻa #1.

4. nvs., Dark-red dye; red.

5. n., A variety of taro.

• References:
  • HP 33.

[Reduplication of hea, to redden.]

1. v., To imprint with spots.

2. v., To stain, especially with red.

3. v., To be smeared, as with red dirt.

1. n., All kinds of hibiscus, including the native white hibiscus (Hibiscus arnottianus 🌐); often called pua aloalo, pualoalo.

• Related:
  • A law was passed in 1923 making the aloalo the flower of the Territory of Hawaiʻi.
  • Qualifying terms: hua moa (egg) or pele (bell) (Abutilon pictum 🌐, Neal 550), koʻakoʻa (Hibiscus schizopetalus 🌐 or coral hibiscus, Neal 558; see also kulapepeiao); lahilahi (all single-flowered forms), pahūpahū (Malvaviscus arboreus 🌐 var. penduliflorus; literally, firecracker, Neal 554), ponimōʻī (Hibiscus, an introduced variety with red double flowers 8 cm. wide or less, literally, coronation, carnation, Neal 556), pupupu (Hibiscus, all double-flowered forms), waikāhuli (Hibiscus mutabilis 🌐, Neal 558–9, during the day flowers changed from white to pink or red).
  • Formerly the blossoms were used as laxatives.

2. n., Squilla (Pseudosquilla ciliata 🌐, Lysiosquilla maculata 🌐), highly desired as food. Also Squilla sp.

3. Loved and served by many persons, as a chief or favorite child; esteemed.

• Examples:
  • Haku o Hawaiʻi he inoa, hānau aloalo aʻu a Keʻelikōlani (chant for Prince of Hawaiʻi), his title is Prince of Hawaiʻi, child of Keʻelikōlani, mine, born with many to serve and love [him].
• References:
  • Cf. alo.

4. n., Tapa made from māmaki mixed with wauke.

• References:
  • Kam. 76:115.
  • Perhaps PNP aloalo .

1. n. A kind of lehua tree with dark-red flower.

2. Short for ʻapapane, a bird. See ʻōhiʻa ʻāpane.

3. vs. Red, flushed, blushing.

s. A species of bird much valued on account of its red feathers.

2. A species of the lehua, the ohia, with red blossoms, which are food for birds.

1. n., A drepanidine bird (Himatione sanguinea), much valued for its red feathers. Same as apapani.

2. n., A species of the ohia or lehua (Metrosideros polymorpha), having red blossoms: also known as ohia apane, ohia lehua, or lehua puakea.

1. Same as weʻaweʻa 1. Kāu e weʻa mai nei iaʻu, what you tempt me to.

2. n. A red dye; to print or color red.

s. A red dye; red coloring matter; he koho ulaula.

A red dye; red coloring matter; he kohu ulaula.

v. See ULA, red. To be a little red; a haulaula ka waha i ka laau.

To be a little red: a haulaula ka waha i ka laau. See ula, red.

[Weo, red.] Fresh; red, like fresh meat just killed.