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1. nvi., Rain; to rain; rainy.

• Examples:
  • Ua liʻiliʻi, light rain, drizzle.
  • Kā hewahewa, he ua (FS 37), hit wildly, it's raining [let's get going, let the fight begin].
• Related:
  • Rain was beloved as it preserved the land; it was called kāhiko o ke akua, adornment of deity.
  • For symbolic connotations of rain cf. wai #1, rain, and Elbert 1962.
  • Many rains are named and associated poetically with particular places.
  • Many rain names refer to the action of rain on plants, as Hehipuahala, Kanilehua, Kinailehua, Lūlaukō, Moanianilehua, Moelehua, Pōʻaihala. Other names show the supposed effects of rain on people or their possessions, as Poʻolipilipi, Poʻonui, Popokapa, Pupūhale.
  • Rains are often referred to with ua preceding a base, as ua Kuahine. They are entered in this dictionary without initial Ua. (Ua- is retained before prepositions, as Uamakalaukoa.)
  • hoʻoua Caus/sim.; To cause rain.
    • Ē ka ʻohu kolo ē, hoʻoua ʻia mai i ulu ka ʻawa, O creeping mist, make it rain so that the kava will grow.
• References:
  • See rain.
  • See hikikiʻi #1, lehua, Hilo.
  • PPN ʻuha .

2. demontrative. Aforementioned, the one talked of.

• Related:
  • Ua is often followed by a noun and nei, here, or lā, there, and is used idiomatically (see ua o, ua ona o, mea #6, and Gram. 8.3.4).
• References:
  • PCP taua .

3. Common particle preceding verbs and denoting completed or recently completed action; to become.

• References:
  • Gram. 5.2.
  • PPN kua .

kikino, Rainfall.

• Literally, rain.
• Related:
  • Alo ua. Rainy side, as of a mountain.
  • Ua pili pali. Orographic rainfall.
  • Ka ili o ka ua. Rain distribution.
  • Palapala ʻāina ua. Rainfall map.
  • Wai ua. Rain water.
• References:
  • See kualā.

prefixed to verbs, marks the fourth form of the preter tense. Gram. § 187.

prefix, A form which marks the perfect tense, as: hele, go; ua hele, gone.

Some of the old words with which prayers were closed—like or probably have a significance similar to the amen which is used in closing Christian prayers.

General word for rain; to rain.

I. Aia ma Palesetine 'ka ua mua,' a me 'ka ua hope,' Kan. 11:14. Hos. 6:3. Ua haule ka ua mua i ka hapa hope o Oketoba, oia ka wa kanu ma Palesetine; a mai ia manawa, he ua no a hiki i Aperila, e like me ia ma Hawaii nei; a ma Aperila ka ua hope. A pau ia, alaila he malie, a oo ae la ka ai. I ka malama o Mei, ka ohi palaoa ana; a i ka malama o Augati, pau ka ohi hua ana; a mai ia manawa a hiki i ka ua mua, i Oketoba, he wela ka la, a maloo ka aina. A hala keia wa wela, oluolu loa no ka haule mai ana o ka ua, pela hoi ke haule mai ka Uhane Hemolele maluna iho o na kanaka, Kan. 32:2; Iob. 29:23; Is. 44:3; Hos. 10:12. O ka ua i haule mai ma Ierusalema i ka makahiki hookahi, he kanalima kumamaono iniha me ka hapalua; a ma Amerika Huipuia, he kanaha kumamalima iniha. Ina i malamaia keia ua ma Palesetine iloko o na luawai, a i hookakaheia ma ka aina i ka wa la, lilo hou oaha ia aina, 'e like me ka mahinaai o lehova,' me ia mamua.

rain; shower.