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.

kanaka

1. nvs., Human being, man, person, individual, party, mankind, population; subject, as of a chief; laborer, servant, helper; attendant or retainer in a family (often a term of affection or pride); human sacrifice (FS 111); physique; human, manly, pregnant, inhabited; Hawaiian; private individual or party, as distinguished from the government.

Related:

• hoʻokanaka Caus/sim.; Manly, human, courageous; to become a servant or helper; to assume human shape, as a child in the womb.

  • See hoʻokanaka makua.

  • E hoʻokanaka, be a man.

  • E hoʻokanaka ʻoukou, ʻaʻole e hoʻonāwaliwali kō ʻoukou mau lima (2 Oihn. 15.7), be strong, let your hands not be weak.

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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.

‘he‘e nalu

n.v., To ride a surfboard; surfing; surf rider.

‘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;

lewa

1. n., Sky, atmosphere, space, air, upper heavens; aerial.

mauli ola

n., Breath of life, power of healing.