kani
1. nvi. sound or noise of any kind; pitch in music; to sound, cry out, ring, peal, jingle, tinkle, toll, whir, resound, reverberate; roar, rumble, crow, resonance; to strike or tick, of a clock, to sing, as birds; voiced.
2. n. sound effects, as on a computer.
3. v. To make a sound more or less musical; to hum, as a tune.
4. To strike, as a clock; kani wale ka wati me ka hookani ole ia aku e ka lima kanaka.
5. To sound, as a trumpet. Puk. 19:13.
6. To explode, as a pistol.
7. To crack, as a whip.
8. To rumble, as thunder.
9. To squeak, as shoes.
10. To crow, as a cock; ke kani mai nei ka moa.
11. Hoo. To sing; to praise; to play on an instrument of music. 1 Sam. 16:18, 23.
12. To cry out, as a multitude; to exclaim; hookani aku la na kanaka penei, the people exclaimed thus.
13. To be unpleasantly affected, as the ears at hearing bad news. 1 Sam. 3:11. Na mea kani, musical instruments.
14. s. A singing; a ringing sound; a report, as of a gun; the sound of a trumpet, or of musical instruments.
15. adj. Sounding; singing; squeaking; making a noise.
16. vs.
• strong,
• hard,
• tough.
17. vt. to satisfy a need, particularly thirst; to drink. |
| 207 | ʻAʻohe pueo keʻu, ʻaʻohe ʻalae kani, ʻaʻohe ʻūlili holoholo kahakai. | No owl hoots, no mudhen cries, no ʻūlili runs on the beach. |
| | [There is perfect peace.] |
| 546 | He ʻaʻo kani kohā ke aliʻi. | The chief is like a loud-voiced ʻaʻo. |
| 819 | He moa kani ao ia, a pō kau i ka haka. | He is a cock that crows in the daytime, but when night comes he sits on a perch. |
| | [Said of a person who brags of what he can do, but when difficulties come he is the first to remove himself from the scene.] |
| 877 | He pahu nā aliʻi, a pā ʻia kani. | A chief is like a drum; there is no sound unless played upon. |
| | [Chiefs seldom stir to action unless incited by others.] |
| 932 | He pūkoʻa kani ʻāina. | A coral reef that grows into an island. |
| | [A person beginning in a small way gains steadily until he becomes firmly established.] |
| 1187 | I kani koʻaka i ka leʻaleʻa; i puʻu ko nuku i ka huhū; i leʻa ka nohona i ka māʻona. | One laughs when joyous; sulks when angry; [is] at peace with all when the stomach is satisfed with food. |
| 1188 | I kani nō ka ʻalae i ka wai. | A mudhen cries because it has water. |
| | [A prosperous person has the voice of authority.] |
| 1189 | I kani nō ka pahu i ka ʻolohaka o loko. | It is the space inside that gives the drum its sound. |
| | [It is the empty-headed one who does the most talking.] |
| 1495 | Kani ka moa i ka ʻīpuka, he malihini kipa. | When a cock crows at the door, a guest is to he expected. |
| 1496 | Kani ka pahu, holo ke kao. | The drum is sounded, the goat flees. |
| | [A humorous expression applied to a bald-headed man whose bare head is likened to a drum.] |
| 1497 | Kani ka pola o ka malo. | The flap of the loincloth makes a snapping sound. |
| | [The boast of an athlete so swift in movement that the flap of his loincloth snaps.] |
| 1498 | Kani ke ʻō, he ihona pali. | One may shout with joy, as this is a going downhill. |
| | [The hard work is over; from here on all is easy.] |
| 1499 | Kani kōlea, he kanaka; nū ka puaʻa, he lapu lā. | When a plover cries, there is a man nearby; when a pig grunts, a ghost is near. |
| 1561 | Ka ua kani koʻo o Heʻeia. | The rain of Heʻeia that sounds like the tapping of walking canes. |
| | [Also said of the rain of Hilo.] |
| 1738 | Ke kani nei ka ʻālana. | The gift is sounded. |
| | [Said of an offering to the gods with a loudly spoken prayer.] |
| 1774 | Ke one kani o Nohili. | The sounding sands of Nohili. |
| | [Nohili is the old name, famed in song and chant, for Barking Sands, Mānā, Kauaʻi. When one slides down the sand hill, it makes a grunting sound.] |
| 2162 | Moa kani ao. | A chicken that cackles in the daytime. |
| | [A woman who talks all day.] |
| 2163 | Moa kani hewa. | A cock that crows too soon. |
| | [One who speaks out of turn.] |
| 2468 | ʻOki pau ka hana i ke one kani o Nohili. | Strange indeed are the activities at the sounding sands of Nohili. |
| | [Barking Sands beach of Nohili, Kauaʻi, was believed to be the haunt of ghosts. Said of a person whose behavior is peculiar.] |
| 2570 | Pahu kani. | Sounding drum. |
| | [A humorous epithet for a bald head. The skin-covered dome looks like a drum on which the skin is pulled taut and no hair grows. Also called pahu hinuhinu (shiny drum).] |
| 2640 | Piʻi nō ka poho, kani kohā! | Up comes the palm — and bang! |
| | [A good smack. The pounder is moistened by a dampened hand before it is brought down on a mass of hard poi.] |
| 2732 | Pūkoʻa kani ʻāina. | A hard rock of the land. |
| | [Said of a strong fighter who destroys others but is himself impossible to destroy.] |