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ʻŌlelo Noʻeau - Concordance

mamo

mamo
1. n. black Hawaiian honey creeper (Drepanis pacifica): its yellow feathers above and below the tail were used in choicest featherwork. Formerly found only on Hawaiʻi, not seen since the 1880s. A Molokaʻi species was Drepanis funerea, not seen since the 1890s.
2. A species of bird with yellow feathers and much valued for its feathers.
3. A yellow war cloak covered with the yellow feathers of the mamo.
4. adj. Yellow, from the yellow bird called mamo; aahu mamo, a yellow garment; ua aahuia i ka lole ula ame ka aahu mamo, he was clothed in a red coat and a yellow robe.
5. n. safflower or false saffron (Carthamus tinctorius), a branching annual, 30 to 120 cm high, from Asia, grown for its flowers, which are yellow, like the feathers of the mamo bird.
6. The name of a tree with beautiful blossoms; he pua nani, he laau.
7. n. a sergeant fish (Abudefduf abdominalis), to about 163 mm long.
8. The name of a species of fish.
9. n. descendant, posterity.
10. s. A descendant; posterity below the third generation. Kin. 26:24. Children; descendants generally. Kanl. 32:52.

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253E akahele i ka mamo a ʻĪ, o kolo mai ka mole uaua.Beware the descendant of ʻĪ, lest the tough roots crawl forth.
 [A warning uttered by Palena, a chief of Kohala, who saw Kuaʻana-a-ʻĪ cruelly treated by the chiefs of Kona. Kuaʻana later went to see the people of his mother, Hoʻoleialiʻi, in Hāna, and to help the chiefs of Hilo in fighting those of Kona.]
793He mamo na Hālō me Kiʻei.A descendant of Peep and Peer.
 [Said of a snoopy person.]
794He mamo na Kamapuaʻa.A descendant of Kamapuaʻa.
 [Said of a man who behaves like a beast, especially where women are concemed. Kamapuaʻa was the hog god of Kaliuwaʻa. There are many stories about his pursuit of women.]
795He mamo na Lohiʻau.A descendant of Lohiʻau.
 [A slowpoke.]
796He mamo na Waʻawaʻa mā.A descendant of the Waʻawaʻa brothers.
 [A fool.]
797He mamo paha na ka poʻe o Kahuwā he maʻa i ka hoe ma ke kūnihi.Perhaps they are descendants of the people of Kahuwā who were in the habit of paddling with the edge of the paddle blade.
 [They are stupid people who never do things right.]
2171Moe kūpuna i ka mamo, a puka hou mai nō nā mamo.Ancestors slept with descendants, and more descendants were born.
 [Said when a girl mates with a supernatural lover in a dream and later bears him a child. The lover might be a family ʻaumakua, hence the reference to an ancestor.]
2260Nā mamo a ke kipi.Descendants of rebels.
 [Said of the people of Kaʻū, who rebelled against oppression.]
2261Nā mamo i ka halo o Kūa.The descendants of the gill fins of Kūa.
 [The people of Kaʻū, Hawaiʻi, are related to Kūa, the great shark god and protector of that district, by descent from his human sister.]
2262Nā mamo pihaʻā i kai o Kaʻaluʻalu.The driftwood descendants at the sea of Kaʻaluʻalu.
 [Said of the innumerable children of large families, who are like the driftwood that litters the beach of Kaʻaluʻalu, Kaʻū.]
2263Nā mamo ʻuī waiū o Waikakalaua.Children of the cow-milkers of Waikakalaua.
 [The Portuguese. At one time there were many Portuguese working in a dairy at Waikakalaua, Oʻahu.]

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