hina
1. nvs. (a loaʻa-type word).
• to fall, tumble, or topple over from an upright position. a falling (cf. hāʻule, to drop);
• to be "controlled," as a disease (Kam. 64:102);
• to fall morally;
• to throw down;
2. v. To lean from an upright position. 3. To fall; to fall down, as a house. 4. To fall morally, as a person from a state of uprightness; to relapse or decline from a state of rectitude. 5. To offend; to be offended. Ioan. 16:1. 6. Hoo. To slant over; to throw down, as a person. Luk. 4:35. 7. s. A leaning; a falling; a causing to fall; a stumbling. 8. n. italics, probably so called because italics slant. 9. vi. to blow in a straight course, of wind. 10. vs. gray- or white-haired; gray. 11. adj. Gray; hoary; applied to the head; oho hina. Kin. 44:29. Gray, as the beard; he umiumi hina. 12. n. hin (a Hebrew measure). 13. s. Heb. A hin, a Hebrew measure. Puk. 29:40. 14. a goddess... Probably the most widely known goddess or demigoddess of Polynesia, frequently connected with the moon. Four well-known Hawaiian Hinas follow. 15. s. Name of a goddess. seehinahele below. 16. wife of Akalana and mother of Māui. seeKaʻalaenuiahina and HM 220. 17. mother of Kamapuaʻa by Kahikiʻula and referred to in chants by her mother, Kamaunuaniho, in order to save Kamapuaʻa in time of peril (FS 196-203). When she failed to recognize her pig son, Kamapuaʻa, in human form, she exposed herself in humiliation (FS 242-249). 18. a wife of Wākea and the mother of the island of Molokaʻi, celebrated in the song Molokaʻi Nuia Hina, Great Molokaʻi Child of Hina. 19. a goddess associated with Kū (upright), with whom she had incestuous relations. Hina in this instance means 'prostrate.' When gathering medicine with their left hands, people prayed to Hina for success. SeeHikuikanahele, Kū. 20. placename. falls at 3,250 feet elevation, Kamalō qd., Molokaʻi, named for the goddess Hina₇, the mother of Molokaʻi. see Keanaohina.
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282
E hiolo ana nā kapu kahiko; e hina ana nā heiau me nā lele; e hui ana nā moku; he iho mai ana ka lani a e piʻi ana ka honua.
The ancient kapu will be abolished; the heiau and altars willfall; the islands will be united; the heavens will descend and the earth ascend.
[A prophecy uttered by Kapihe, a kahuna in Kamehameha’s time. The last part of the saying means that chiefs will come down to humble positions and commoners rise to positions of honor.]
579
He hina na ka ʻaʻaliʻi kūmakani, he ʻulaʻa pū me ka lepo.
When the wind-resisting ʻaʻaliʻi falls, it lifts the sod up with its roots.
[A boast: When I, a powerful man, fall, others will fall with me.]
905
He poʻi na kai uli, kai koʻo, ʻaʻohe hina pūkoʻa.
Though the sea he deep and rough, the coral rock remains standing.
[Said of one who remains calm in the face of difficulty.]
935
He pūmaiʻa: loaʻa i ke kīkīao, hina.
A banana stump: when a gust of wind comes, it falls.
[A weakling who is blown down by every trouble that comes.]
957
He ʻūlili holoholo kahakai, pā i ke kai nui, hina.
A sandpiper running about on the beach, when struck by a big wave, falls.
[A disparaging remark applied to a weakling who cannot fight.]
1697
Ke hina ke uahi ma kahi ʻaoʻao he mea mākole ko ia ʻaoʻao.
When the smoke falls on one side, someone on that side will feel a smarting of the eyes.
[Where strong words fall, feelings are hurt.]
2081
Mai ʻōlelo i ke kuapuʻu e kū pololei, o hina auaneʻi.
Dont tell the hunchback to stand up straight lest he fall down.
[Don’t go around correcting others.]
2091
Ma kahi o ka makani e pā ai, ma laila ka uahi e hina ai.
Where the wind blows, there the smoke falls.
[Where the chief commands, the subjects go.]
2412
ʻO ka lāʻau i hina, ʻaʻole ia e kū hou.
A fallen tree does not rise again.
[Said of an old man who has lost his sexual potency.]
2527
ʻO ʻOlepau ka mahina; ʻo palaweka ka mahina; ʻo hina wale ka mahina; ʻo hāhā pōʻele ka mahina.
ʻOlepau is the moon phase; hazy is the light of the moon; quickly goes the light of the moon; one gropes in the dark.
[Said of one who is vague or hazy in explaining his thoughts, or of one whose knowledge is vague.]