He Aniani — Combined Hawaiian Dictionary Mirror

updated: 5/27/2020

ʻŌlelo Noʻeau - Concordance

kanu

kanu
1. nvt. to plant, bury; planting, burial. fig., hereditary.
2. n. crop or planting, i.e. the number of plantings of a particular plant.
3. v. To bury, as a corpse. 1 Sam. 25:1. To cover up in the earth.
4. To plant, as seed; to plant out a vegetable. Hal. 80:15. To transplant.
5. To hide in the earth.
6. s. A burial; a planting; a putting out of sight in the earth.
7. adj. Mea kanu, seed or a vegetable for planting; laau kanu, a tree for planting.
8. v. To be silent; to be stubborn.

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316	E kanu i ka huli ʻoi hāʻule ka ua.	Plant the taro stalks while there is rain.
	[Do your work when opportunity affords.]
317	E kanu mea ʻai o nānā keiki i ka haʻi.	Plant edible food plants lest your children look with longing at someone else’s.
671	He kanu Mahoemua, he kalo pūʻali.	When one plants in [the month of] Mahoemua, he will have irregularly shaped taro.
684	He keiki aloha nā mea kanu.	Beloved children are the plants.
	[It is said of farmers that their plants are like beloved children, receiving much attention and care.]
914	He poʻo ulu ko nā mea kanu.	Plants have heads that grow again.
	[An assurance that if you break off the top of a plant, it will put forth a new one.]
1447	Kalo kanu o ka ʻāina.	Taro planted on the land.
	[Natives of the land from generations back.]
1509	Kanu ke kalo i Welo, ʻaʻole e ulu nui ʻia e ka ʻohā.	Plant taro in Welo and the offshoots will not be many.
	[The corm of taro planted in the month of Welo grows very large but the offishoots are few.]
2618	Pau pulu, ʻaʻohe lau kanu.	Gone, mulch and all; with not even a sweet-potato slip to plant.
	[Utter destruction, with nothing left for a new start.]

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