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n., Chest, breast. Figuratively, heart, character.

• Examples:
  • Umauma nahā, very hungry.
  • Hoʻokahi ka umauma! United, all as one!
  • He aha ka hua i ka umauma? (PH 42), what is the thought in the heart?
  • E wehe i ka umauma i ākea, open the chest wide [be generous, kind].
  • ʻAu umauma ʻo Hilo i ka wai, Hilo swims breasting the water [travel regardless of obstacles; Hilo district had gulches and streams hard to cross].
• References:
  • PPN uma , shoulder; PCP uma , chest.

ʻAu umauma. Breast stroke; to swim the breast stroke. See kīloi umauma.

s. The breast; the bosom. Puk. 4:6. The breast, i. e., the meat of the breast. Puk. 29:26. Umauma hoali, wave breast. Nah. 18:18. Umauma luli, wave breast. Oihk. 7:34. Kahi mawaena o na waiu.

adj. Of or belonging to the breast; he pale umauma, a breast plate. 1 Sam. 17:5.

Of or belonging to the breast; he pale umauma, a breast plate.

The breast; the bosom; the chest.

breast. Land section. Hilo. Hawaii.

Chest, breast, bosom. (Puk. 4:6.)

bosom, chest.