Oli

nvt., Chant that was not danced to, especially with prolonged phrases chanted in one breath, often with a trill (ʻiʻi) at the end of each phrase; to chant thus.   nvs., Joy, happiness, pleasure; happy, joyful, gay. v. To chant or sing. Ke oli, the chant. Mea oli,  E oli i ka oli, to sing a song Hoo oli. To cause joy; exultation, &c. Also olioli.

• Related:

  • Waiʻoli (place name), happy water.

  • hōʻoli Caus/sim.; To give joy, make happy. chanter.

mele

1. nvt., Song, anthem, or chant of any kind; poem, poetry; to sing, chant (preceded by both ke and ka). hoʻomele Caus/sim.; To cause to sing or chant. v. To chant; to cantillate; to sing singly. To sing with joy; to sing and dance.

hanu

1s. The breath; the power of breathing. Oih. 17:25. The natural breath. 2v. See HANO. To breathe; to emit air from the lungs. Laieik. 104. 3. To beat; to throb, as the pulse. 4. To act with energy. 5. To be so exceedingly angry that one cannot stand still, that he runs one way then another, ranting. scolding and threatening all that come in his way. 6. Hoo. To breathe furiously or angrily. Puk. 15:8.  7. nvt. To breathe, smell, sniff, inhale; breath, respiration, transpiration, last breath of life;  8.adj. Na mea hanu, the breathing things, i. e., people.    9 Living; na mea hanu, the living things.  10.To hunt or search for by means of the sense of smell.

Hakalau

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hiʻo lani

hiʻo.lani vi. To sleep, lie at ease, lounge, relax (this word sometimes replaces moe in poetry because moe suggests the sleep of death). Ua kau ke keha i ka uluna, ua hiʻolani i ka moena (UL 130), the head rests on the pillow, stretching out on the mat [relax after work is done].

aloha

nvt., nvs. Aloha, love, affection, compassion, mercy, sympathy, pity, kindness, sentiment, grace, charity; greeting, salutation, regards; sweetheart, lover, loved one; beloved, loving, kind, compassionate, charitable, lovable; to love, be fond of; to show kindness, mercy, pity, charity, affection; to venerate; to remember with affection; to greet, hail.

1. v. To love; to regard with affection; to desire.

2. To have pity or compassion upon.

3. To show mercy; to be merciful as a habit. Mat. #5:7. To spare; to pity. Ezek. #7:9.

4. To salute at meeting or parting. 1 sam. #10:4.

5. To salute contemptuously; aloha ino kaua, alas for us two. NOTE.—Aloha, as a word of salutation, is modern; the ancient forms were anoai, welina, &c.

6. Hooaloha. To give thanks as an act of worship. 1 Oihl. #25:3.

mālama

1. v., Ma and lama, light. To keep; to preserve; to watch over. See kiai.

2. nvt., To tend, attend, preserve, protect, beware, save, maintain; to keep or observe, as a taboo; to conduct, as a service; to serve, honor, as God; care, preservation, support, fidelity, loyalty; custodian, caretaker, keeper.

3. To serve as a servant; to take care of, as one who cares for another. Kin. 47:13.

4. To reverence; to obey, as a command. Kanl. 5:9.

5. To observe, as a festival; to attend to, as a duty.

6. To be awake to danger.

7. To put and keep things in order.

lōkahi

nvs., Unity, agreement, accord, unison, harmony; agreed, in unity.

Manaʻo lōkahi, unanimous.

hoʻolōkahi Caus/sim.; To bring about unity; to make peace and unity; to be in agreement.

ʻohana

1. nvs., Family, relative, kin group; related.

2. n., A family; a group of kindred individuals; all the young of one animal; ka ohana moa, ka ohana ilio, etc.; ohana uuku, an endearing appellation for ltitle children; ohana hipa, a flock of sheep.

3. n., Lineage; race; tribe.

4. n., Those who dwell together and compose a family; an assemblage of parents, children and servants living together; o ke kakai no ia o ka lepo o Lahainaluna me he ohana moa la.

hoʻokuleana

To entitle, give right to possess; to give a responsibility.

lokomaikaʻi

nvs., Good will, good disposition, generosity, grace; kind, humane, gracious, benevolent, beneficent, obliging.
v. Loko, disposition, and maikai, good. To feel and act benevolently; to be kindly disposed towards one; to be favorable to one.

olakino maikaʻi

olakino n., State of health, constitution. maikaʻi nvs., Good, fine, all right, well; good-looking; handsome, beautiful; goodness, righteousness, benefit, well-being, morality; good looks, good health.

mālama ʻāina

mā.lama To take care of ʻāina Land, earth.

ʻoiaʻiʻo

nvs., True; truth, fact; truly, firmly, certainly, genuine, real, sure, verily, authentic; faithfulness (Hal. 92.2).

• Examples:

  • ʻO au nō me ka ʻoiaʻiʻo, I am, sincerely; yours truly.

  • Nā mea ʻoiaʻiʻo, facts, true items.

  • ʻOiaʻiʻo, he ʻoiaʻiʻo (Ioane 16.20), verily, verily.

  • ʻOiaʻiʻo kā hoʻi, is that so, so [as in surprise, anger].

ho‘oponopono

vt., To correct. To put in order; to regulate; to correct what is erroneous.

To put to rights; to put in order or shape, correct, revise, adjust, amend, regulate, arrange, rectify, tidy up, make orderly or neat, administer, superintend, supervise, manage, edit, work carefully and neatly; to make ready, as canoemen preparing to catch a wave (For. 5:127). Cf. luna hoʻoponopono, mea hoʻoponopono. Hoʻoponopono ʻole, slovenly untidy, disorderly, careless, thoughtless, uninhibited, blunt, reckless. Hoʻoponopono hou, to revise, reorganize, re-edit. Noho hoʻoponopono ʻole, sitting in a careless or indecent way. Kāna hoʻoponopono ʻana i ka ʻāina (Laie 495), his apportioning of the land [on becoming chief]. Ka hoʻoponopono waiwai ʻana (For. 5:129), the financial arrangements, adjustments. Hoʻoponopono waiwai, administrator or executor of an estate; to administer an estate. Hale hoʻoponopono, administration building. Ka hoʻoponopono ʻana, regulation. Kānāwai hoʻoponopono ʻia, revised law.

Mental cleansing: family conferences in which relationships were set right (hoʻoponopono) through prayer, discussion, confession, repentance, and mutual restitution and forgiveness (Na_na_ 60).

hana

1. v., To do; to work; to cause; used in the most extensive sense; to act; to labor.

2. To make; to do a thing; to affect; to produce. Rom. 3:32. To perform a duty; to cause a thing; to build, as an edifice.

3. To form for a particular purpose.

4. To observe a ceremony; to keep a command. Puk. 12:47. PASS. To cause to be done, i. e., to become. Puk. 15:25.

lā‘au lapa‘au

n., Medicine. Literally, curing medicine.
lā.ʻau nvs. plant     lapa‘au nvt., Medical practice; to treat with medicine, heal, cure; medical, medicinal.

lomilomi

v., See LOMI. To rub; to squeeze and chafe the limbs of one who is weary or in pain; to shampoo except the bathing.
2. To mitigate or ease pain by so doing.
3. To mend letters in writing, that is, to draw the pen two or three times over the same line to improve its appearance.
4. To feel of a thing to ascertain its qualities; lomilomi iho la kuu lima i ua pohaku la, he paakiki la! my hand felt of that stone, it was hard.
5. To act upon, as the Spirit of God acts upon the heart; i na manawa a pau loa kona (ko ke Akua) lomilomi ana mai ia'u, at all times has he (God) acted upon me.
6. The servant whose business it was to take care of the spittle and excrements of the chief.
7. v., To rub out; blot out; to erase by massage.
8. v., To act under occult power, as in the influence of a god on the life.

‘ai pono

ʻai hamani, Ingest. eat right

pā‘ani ‘ālapa

pā.ʻani nvt., Play, sport, game, amusement, joke; joking, playing, amusing, playful; to play pā.ʻani ʻā.lapa nvs., Athletic, active; athlete;