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].

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.

‘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;

mākaukau

1. nvs., qualified; prepared, ready, Able, competent, capable, handy, efficient, proficient, versed, adept, skilled, expert, ; competence, proficiency, efficiency, aptitude, preparation; to know how, to know well.

hoʻomākaukau Caus/sim.; To prepare, make ready. Mākaukau ʻole, unprepared, unskilled, unqualified, not ready