lālā
1. nvs. diagonal, slanting, oblique; diagonal surfing or surf.
2. n. diagonal.
3. n. split end, in football. see ʻāwaʻa lala.
4. vi. to warm, as over a fire, to warm oneself by a fire; to bask in the sun; to cook over a fire.
5. vs. bright, shiny.
6. see la, sun. To bask in the sunshine.
7. To be hot, as the sun.
8. The shining or glazing of varnish on leather.
9. vs. thin.
10. n. cap visor.
11. n. a small bait fish (no data).
12. vt. to straighten.
13. To set a copy for writing, as a teacher.
14. To make straight; to straighten, as a stick of timber that is sprung.
15. n. a style of diagonal quilting.
16. the four corners of a house.
17. The four corners of a house.
18. v. To begin a piece of work or a job.
19. To draw the outline of a piece of land desired; to mark out the plan or lines of what is to be done.
20. s. The limb or branch of a tree; lala laau, branches of trees.
21. A limb of the human or animal frame.
22. adj. For laa, l inserted. see laa. Consecrated; set apart for a particular purpose; kala lala, money given for pious uses; aole oia i hookoe i kekahi mea me ka lala ole, he did not keep back from consecration.
23. nvi. branch, limb, bough, coconut frond; timber, as of outrigger boom or float; wing of an army; to branch out, form branches, diverge.
24. n. member, as of a society.
25. n. member, as of an organization.
26. n. term in fractions.
27. n. slip, as of hibiscus. Also lālā hoʻoulu.
28. A species of potato bearing its fruit on the leaves. see alala.
29. n. sweet potato produced on a branch vine.
30. n. barb or hook, as of bone or coconut shell, on a mother-of-pearl lure; bone point of a composite hook.
31. n. fins.
32. n. phrase, in grammar. |
| 12 | Ahu a lālā kukui. | The kukui branches lay about in heaps. |
| | [Strewn about in every direction. An expression that refers to an untidy place or the strewing of dead bodies after a battle.] |
| 638 | He ʻio au, ʻaʻohe lālā kau ʻole. | I am a hawk; there is no branch on which I cannot perch. |
| | [I can go anywhere I please; I am a chief.] |
| 717 | He lālā kamahele no ka lāʻau kū i ka pali. | A far-reaching branch of the tree standing on the cliff. |
| | [A boast of a strong person who, like the tree on the cliff, can withstand gales and pouring rain.] |
| 804 | He manu ke aloha, ʻaʻohe lālā kau ʻole. | Love is like a bird — there is no branch that it does not perch upon. |
| | [Love is an emotion shared by all.] |
| 1261 | I ulu nō ka lālā i ke kumu. | The branches grow because of the trunk. |
| | [Without our ancestors we would not be here.] |
| 1429 | Ka lālā kaukonakona haki ʻole i ka pā a ka makani Kona. | The tough branch that does not break in the Kona gales. |
| | [Said of a sturdy, strong person.] |
| 1444 | Kālina ka pono, ʻaʻohe hua o ka puʻe, aia ka hua i ka lālā. | The potato hill is bare of tubers for the plant no longer bears; it is the vines that are now bearing. |
| | [The mother is no longer bearing, but her children are.] |
| 1991 | Līhuʻe hōʻā wahie lālā koa. | Līhue lights fires with koa branches. |
| | [Līhuʻe, Oʻahu, once had a grove of koa trees whose branches were used for firewood.] |
| 2084 | Mai piʻi aʻe ʻoe i ka lālā kau halalī o ʻike ʻia kou wahi hilahila e ou mau hoa. | Do not climb to the topmost branches lest your private parts be seen by your companions. |
| | [Do not put on an air of superiority lest people remember only your faults.] |
| 2249 | Nā lālā kapu a Lono. | The sacred branches of Lono. |
| | [Refers to the various branches of the chiefly families directly descended from the god Lonoikamakahiki.] |
| 2725 | Puka ka lā, puka pū me ka hana, i ʻike ʻia ka lālā maloʻo me ka lālā maka. | When day arrives, work time arrives too, for it is then that dry branches can be distinguished from green ones. |