haʻalele
1. v. Haa and lele, to fly.
2. To cause to fly, that is, to forsake; to give up, as a man his wife; as a child its parents.
3. To leave off; forsake, as a job of work before it is finished.
4. To reject; cast off. The following [haalelea] is often used in the same sense, though really as follows:
5. vt.
• to leave, desert, abandon, forsake,
• quit, resign, abdicate,
• discard,
• give up, reject,
• leave unfinished.
6. vt. to evacuate, as a building.
7. vt. to quit, as a computer program. |
| 85 | ʻAi nō ka ʻiole a haʻalele i kona kūkae. | A rat eats, then leaves its droppings. |
| | [Said of an ungrateful person.] |
| 394 | Haʻalele ʻia i muliwaʻa. | Left on the very last canoe. |
| | [Said of one who is left behind.] |
| 395 | Haʻalele i ka lā ka mea mahana. | Has left the warmth of the sun. |
| | [Has died.] |
| 396 | Haʻalele i ka ʻulaʻula waiwai a koho i ka ʻulaʻula waiwai ʻole. | Leaves the valuable red and chooses the worthless red. |
| | [Said of one who rejects a suitor of rank in favor of one of lesser station.] |
| 397 | Haʻalele i Puna nā hoaloha ʻē. | Left in Puna are the friends. |
| | [Said of one who has deserted his friends. Originally said of Hiʻiaka when she left Puna.] |
| 398 | Haʻalele koa waʻa i koa kanaka. | Thc koa canoe has departed leaving the warriors behind. |
| | [Said when a canoe goes off and leaves the people behind, either in the water or on land.] |
| 399 | Haʻalele ʻo Makanikeoe. | Makanikeoe has departed. |
| | [Peace and love are no longer here.] |
| 400 | Haʻalele wale iho nō i ke kula o Pūʻula. | For no reason he leaves the plain of Pūʻula. |
| | [He goes off in a huff for no reason at all. A play on puʻu, or puʻu ka nuku (to pout). Pūʻula is a place in Puna, Hawaiʻi.] |
| 1426 | Kālai o Lūaliʻi i ke kiʻi a ʻike i ka ʻino haʻalele. | Lūaliʻi carved an image and, finding it bad, deserted it. |
| | [Said of one who abandons a thing he used to indulge in. Lūaliʻi was a chief of Hawaiʻi who wanted to carve an image. He went to the mountains, found a log and bore it to the lowland to work on. It was almost finished when he discovered a rotted spot. He deserted it and went to find another log to carve. As he worked on the second log he heard the first one say, “Lūaliʻi carved an image and, finding it bad, deserted it.” He went back to it, cleaned out the rotted spot and finished it. He knew that a god possessed it. This god later helped him rid Oʻahu of evil beings.] |
| 2518 | ʻO nā ʻunihipili o Keaweʻolouha ua haʻalele i ka haka. | The deified relatives of Keaweʻolouha have deserted the person they possessed. |
| | [A play on Keawe-ʻolo-uha (Keawe-with-the-sagging-colon), a term applied to one who is too lazy to work. Those who depended on him soon deserted.] |
| 2886 | ʻUā a haʻalele wale. | Shouted till they left off. |
| | [Shouted themselves hoarse.] |