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Manō (for various kinds, sayings, fig. meanings, see Haw.-Eng. entry and entries that follow it).

• Examples:
  • The wiliwili blooms, sharks bite, pua ka wiliwili, nanahu ka manō (of a girl reaching maturity).
• Related:
  • Also: lālākea, laukāhiʻu, leleiwi, lelewaʻa, luhia, niuhi.
  • Line of shark fins protruding above the water, lālani kalalea.
  • To catch sharks with bait and noose, kūmanō.
  • Shark-tooth weapon, leiomano.
  • Shark-tooth knife, niho ʻoki.
  • To behave as a shark, to act like a shark, to pursue women, hoʻomanō.
• References:
  • See saying, holopapa #2, and idiom, eat.

he mano, he ia nui, he kanaka epa.

h. ka mano, he ia nui, he kanaka epa.

hai. e epa.

(common), mănō'; man-eating shark, nĭŭ'hĭ.

Ma-no'.