manaʻo
1. v. Ma and nao, root not found. To think of; to call to mind; to meditate; manao io, manao oiaio, to believe as true; to credit; to; have full confidence in; to wish; to will. Rom. 9:18.
2. Hoo. To remember; to consider; to call to mind; to please to do a thing; to will.
3. s. A thought; an idea; a plan; a device; a purpose; a counsel; a stratagem; manao kiekie, a high thought; pride; manao io, faith; belief; confidence; manao io, faith; belief; confidence; manao oiaio, the same; manao kuko, lust; manao lana, hope; expectation; manao akamai, spirit of wisdom. Puk. 28:3.
4. nvt. thought, idea, belief, opinion, theory, thesis, intention, meaning, suggestion, mind (Mat. 22.37), desire, want; to think, estimate, anticipate, expect (see ex., leleʻoi), suppose, mediate, deem, consider (not the intellectual process of noʻonoʻo).
5. n. concept. |
| 23 | Aia a kau ka iʻa i ka waʻa, manaʻo ke ola. | One can think of life after the fish is in the canoe. |
| | [Before one feels elated and makes plans he should first secure his “fish.”] |
| 352 | E manaʻo aʻe ana e lei i ka lehua o Mokaulele. | A wish to wear the lehua of Mokaulele in a lei. |
| | [A wish to win the maiden. Lei symbolizes sweetheart, and lehua, a pretty girl.] |
| 543 | He ana ka manaʻo o ke kanaka, ʻaʻole ʻoe e ʻike iā loko. | The thoughts of man are like caves whose interiors one cannot see. |
| 554 | He ʻauwai ka manaʻo o nā aliʻi, ʻaʻohe maopopo kahi e kahe ai. | The minds of chiefs are like a ditch — no one knows whither they flow. |
| | [No one knows whom or what the chiefs will favor.] |
| 563 | He hale ke kino no ka manaʻo. | The body is a house for the thoughts. |
| 749 | He lele pā iki kau ka manaʻo; ke aloha kamaliʻi he lālau nō. | [An adult] lets his fancy take fight and touches lightly while a child lover reaches out directly. |
| | [An adult lover dreams, plans, and gently woos; a child is clumsy in his lovemaking.] |
| 993 | Hili hewa ka manaʻo ke ʻole ke kūkākūkā. | Ideas run wild without discussion. |
| | [Discussion brings ideas together into a plan.] |
| 1070 | Hoʻokahi mea manaʻo nui a ka ʻōhua o ka hale: ʻo kahi mea mai ka lima mai o ke aliʻi. | There is one thing all members of the household look to: whatever they are given by the hands of the chief. |
| | [All members of the chief’s household are dependent on him.] |
| 1098 | Hoʻolike ka manaʻo i Wailohia. | Make your minds alike at Wailohia. |
| | [Turn your minds onto the same channel with bright thoughts. A play on wai (water) and lohia (sparkle).] |
| 2137 | Manaʻo pahaʻoe i kaʻeleʻele o kuʻu kuʻemaka he kauā au nāu? | Do you think that because my eyebrows are black I am your servant? |
| | [Said in annoyance by one who is asked to do distasteful work. Kauā were sometimes identifiable by the black tattoos on their foreheads.] |
| 2155 | Me he makani hulilua lā, huli ka manaʻo, hele ka noʻonoʻo. | Like the wind that blows one way and then blows another, so does the mind turn and the thoughts depart. |
| | [Said of one who makes a promise and then forgets all about it.] |
| 2660 | Pipili i ka hana makamaka ʻole, hoʻokahi nō makamaka o ke kaunu a ka manaʻo. | Sticks to the work in which friends are ignored; only one friend is considered, the desire of the heart. |
| | [Said of one who is in love and pays no attention to anyone except the object of his affection.] |
| 2699 | Pua ka uahi o ko a uka, manaʻo ke ola o ko a kai. | When the smoke [from the fires] of the upland dwellers rises, the shore dwellers think of life. |
| | [Shore dwellers depended on the uplanders for poi.] |