malu
1. nvs.
• shade, shaded,
• shelter, protection, safe;
• protected by taboo;
• reserved, held apart; taboo;
• peace, peaceful, quiet, the stillness and awe of taboo.
• control,
• strength (Kanl. 33.25);
2. v. To shade; to overshadow; to cast a shade; malu ka la, the sun is shaded. Laieik. 163.
3. To be comfortable, as in a shade when all is heat around; to be in a state of quietness and peace with others.
4. To be favored; to have many enjoyments and privileges.
5. To be fruitful; to be blessed.
6. Hoo. To bless; to comfort; to make comfortable.
7. To rule over; to govern, as a chief; to keep in order the affairs of state. 1 Nal. 3:9.
8. To make peace, i.e., a treaty of peace with olelo kuikahi. Lunk. 3:19.
9. To protect; to govern; to put under a kapu; hoomalu iho la o Kamehameha, nana wale no e kuai i ka wahie ala, Kamehameha prohibited the sandal-wood; he only would sell it.
10. s. A shade; the shadow of a tree or anything that keeps off the sun.
11. Peace; quietness; protection.
12. Watchfulness; care.
13. adj. Overshadowed; protected; governed.
14. Quiet; without care or anxiety.
15. n. name recorded by Gosline for sidespot goatfish, Parupeneus pleurostigma.
16. adj. Secret; not openly; contrary to order; without liberty; unlawful; olelo malu, secret conversation. Lunk. 3:19.
17. adv. Secretly; unlawfully.
18. Wet; cold; damp; soaked in water; i waiho ia maloko o ka wai.
19. Shivering with wet and cold. |
| 90 | ʻAkahi a komo ke anu iaʻu, ua nahā ka hale e malu ai. | Cold now penetrates me, for the house that shelters is broken. |
| | [Fear enters when protection is gone. Said by ʻAikanaka of Kauaʻi when two of his war leaders were destroyed by Kawelo.] |
| 430 | Hālau Lahaina, malu i ka ʻulu. | Lahaina is like a large house shaded by breadfruit trees. |
| 539 | He aliʻi no ka malu kukui. | A chief of the kukui shade. |
| | [A chief who has something shady in his genealogy that he doesn’t care to discuss.] |
| 668 | He kanaka no ka malu kukui. | A person from the kukui tree shade. |
| | [A person of uncertain parentage; one who has in his veins the blood of chiefs as well as commoners. Similar to Kūkae pōpolo (Excreta of the pōpolo berries [that have been eaten]).] |
| 1473 | Ka malu ao o nā pali kapu o Kakaʻe. | The cloud shelter of the sacred cliffs of Kakaʻe. |
| | [Kakaʻe, an ancient ruler of Maui, was buried in ʻīao Valley, and the place was given his name. It was known as Na-pali-kapu-o-Kakaʻe (Kakaʻe’s Sacred Precipice) or Na-pela-kapu-o-Kakaʻe (Kakaʻe’s Sacred Flesh). Since that time, many high chiefs have shared his burial place.] |
| 1474 | Ka malu hālau loa o ke kukui. | The long shelter of the kukui trees. |
| | [A kukui grove shelters like a house.] |
| 1475 | Ka malu niu o Huʻehuʻewai. | The coconut grove of Huʻehuʻewai. |
| | [This grove was in Kaimū, Puna.] |
| 1476 | Ka malu niu o Pōkāʻī. | The coco-palm shade of Pōkaī. |
| | [Refers to Waiʻanae, on Oʻahu. At Pōkāʻī was the largest and best-known coconut grove on Oʻahu, famed in chants and songs.] |
| 1484 | Ka moa i hānai ʻia i ka lā, ua ʻoi ia i ka moa i hānai ʻia i ka malu. | A cock fed in the sunlight is stronger than one fed in the shade. |
| | [If you want a strong son, raise him with plenty of sunlight.] |
| 1936 | Lahaina, i ka malu ʻulu o Lele. | Lahaina, in the shade of the breadfruit trees of Lele. |
| | [The old name for Lahaina was Lele.] |
| 2130 | Malu ke kula, ʻaʻohe keʻu pueo. | The plain is quiet; not even the hoot of an owl is heard. |
| | [All is at peace.] |
| 2362 | ʻŌhiʻa noho malu. | Mountain apple in the shade. |
| | [Said of a beautiful or handsome person, who is compared to a mountain apple that ripens to perfection in the shade.] |
| 2912 | Wailuku i ka malu he kuawa. | Wailuku in the shelter of the valleys. |
| | [Wailuku, Maui, reposes in the shelter of the clouds and the valley.] |