moku
1. vs.
• to be cut, severed, amputated, broken in two, as a rope;
• broken loose, as a stream after heavy rains, or as a bound person;
• to punctuate.
2. v. To divide in two; to cut, as with a sword; hahau mai la i ka pahi, a moku kekahi alii, he struck with a sword and cut a certain chief; to cut off, as a member of the body.
3. To break, asunder, as a cord, rope or chain. Oihk. 26:13.
4. To break, as the neck; a moku ko Kiwalao a-i a make no ia, he broke Kiwalao's neck and he died.
5. To cut off, as with a sword at a single blow.
6. To rend or tear in pieces, as a furious beast. Mat. 7:6.
7. To crack; to burst open with a noise.
8. n.
• district, island, islet, section,
• forest, grove, clump,
• severed portion, fragment,
• cut, laceration,
• scene in a play.
9. s. A part of a country divided off from another part.
10. A district; a division of an island, as Kona on Hawaii, and Hana on Maui.
11. An island, i.e., land seperated from other land by water. Moku or mokupuni is synonymous with aina. D.Malo 7:1.
12. n. ship, schooner, vessel, boat, said to be so called because the first European ships suggested islands. Many types are listed below.
13. A ship; so called from the supposition when first seen that they were islands.
14. A dividing line; a boundary between the different divisions of an island. see mokuna.
15. A part or piece of anything broken off.
16. n. a stage of pounded poi (such poi sticks together as a mass and can be separated cleanly, moku, from the pounding board).
17. placename. coastal land section, Kaunakakai qd., south Molokaʻi. lit.: district or islet or severed.
18. To hold fast, as an anchor holds a ship.
19. To cast or throw into the sea; mokuia i ke kai, aole e make;
20. adj. Greatly increased; swollen, as water; running; flowing; breaking down barriers, as water. |
| 282 | E hiolo ana nā kapu kahiko; e hina ana nā heiau me nā lele; e hui ana nā moku; he iho mai ana ka lani a e piʻi ana ka honua. | The ancient kapu will be abolished; the heiau and altars willfall; the islands will be united; the heavens will descend and the earth ascend. |
| | [A prophecy uttered by Kapihe, a kahuna in Kamehameha’s time. The last part of the saying means that chiefs will come down to humble positions and commoners rise to positions of honor.] |
| 368 | ʻEono moku a Kamehameha ua noa iā ʻoukou, akā ʻo ka hiku o ka moku ua kapu ia naʻu. | Six of Kamehameha’s islands are free to you, but the seventh is kapu, and is for me alone. |
| | [This was uttered by Kamehameha after Oʻahu was conquered. The islands from Hawaiʻi to Oʻahu, which included Maui, Molokaʻi, Lānaʻi, and Kahoʻolawe, belonged to his people. But the seventh “island,” Kaʻahumanu, was his alone. Anyone who attempted to take her from him would be put to death.] |
| 807 | He māʻona moku. | A satisfaction with the land. |
| | [Said of a person contented with what he has, as a chief is satisfied with his domain.] |
| 826 | He moku ʻāleuleu. | District of ragamuffns. |
| | [Said by Kamehameha’s followers of Kaʻū and Puna because the people there, being hard-working farmers, lived most of the time in old clothes.] |
| 841 | He niuhi ʻai holopapa o ka moku. | The niuhi shark that devours all on the island. |
| | [A powerful warrior. The niuhi shark was dreaded because of its ferociousness. It was believed that a chief or warrior who captured this vicious denizen of the deep would acquire something of its nature.] |
| 1412 | Ka ʻio nui maka lana au moku. | The great ʻio with eyes that see everywhere on the land. |
| | [A ruling chief.] |
| 1488 | Ka moku kāʻili lā o Manokalanipo. | The sun-snatching island of Manokalanipo. |
| | [Kauaʻi, the northwesternmost island of the group, beyond which the sun vanishes at dusk. Manokalanipo was an ancient ruler of Kauaʻi.] |
| 1489 | Ka moku puni kuapuʻu. | The hunchbacked island. |
| | [Maui. Its shape on the map resembles the figure of a hunchbacked person.] |
| 1525 | Kapakahi Manuia; Keokoʻi ka moku! | Crooked is Manuia; Keokoʻi is the ship! |
| | [When Boki sailed to Noumea, Manuia and his wife Kaʻupena and two hundred others followed in the ship Keokoʻi. They were to join Boki’s party in the New Hebrides, but Boki’s ship was lost, and Boki was never seen again. Shortly before the return of the Keokoʻi, a lunatic went about the streets of Honolulu, crying these words. When the ship finally arrived, its flag was at half-mast, for most of the crew had died of disease and been buried at sea. Manuia’s body was brought home. This expression is said humorously of anything that is crooked or lopsided.] |
| 1645 | Ka wahine pōʻai moku. | The woman who made a circuit of the islands. |
| | [Hiʻiaka, who traveled to all of the islands of the Hawaiian group.] |
| 1876 | Kū i ka moku. | Stands on the island. |
| | [Said of a person who has become a ruler — he stands on his district or island.] |
| 1885 | Kū kaʻapā ia Hawaiʻi, he moku nui. | [It is well for] Hawaiʻi to show activity; it is the largest of the islands. |
| | [Hawaiʻi should lead forth for she is the largest.] |
| 2010 | Limua ka moku. | The land is moss-covered. |
| | [There is peace in the land, and no wars to disturb it.] |
| 2185 | Moku holo honua. | A land-sailing ship. |
| | [Any animal used for transportation.] |
| 2186 | Moku i ka ʻohe a Kahaʻi. | Cut off by the bamboo knife of Kahaʻi. |
| | [Said of any complete severing. Kahaʻi was a chief who traveled afar. He is credited with introducing the first breadfruit plant to the islands.] |
| 2187 | Moku ka huelo o Kalahumoku lā! | Bitten off was the tail of Kalahumoku! |
| | [Said when one starts a fight and then gets beaten. Kalahumoku was a supernatural dog from Kahiki who became the friend of ʻAiwohikupua, chief of Kauaʻi. He was taken by the latter to Hawaiʻi to fight the lizard guardian of Paliuli and to destroy ʻAiwohikupua’s sisters, who resided there. The girls had been deserted by the chief when they did not win for him the woman he wanted to wed. The lizard won the battle and the dog returned to his friend with his ears chewed up and part of his tail bitten off.] |
| 2188 | Moku ka ihu iā Hio lā! | Bitten off is the nose by Hio! |
| | [Used by adults to frighten children into staying at home. Hio was an akua (ghost) who wandered about peering into the doors of homes and biting off the noses of those who annoyed him. He escaped when his companions were caught in a fishnet set by the super-natural hero Kamiki at Kuʻunaakeakua (Net-let-down-for-akua), Makalawena, Kona.] |
| 2189 | Moku ka pepeiao, na ke aliʻi ia puaʻa. | When the ear is cut, it is a sign that the pig belongs to the chief. |
| | [The ears of certain pigs were cut to show that they were the property of the chief.] |
| 2279 | Nā niu kulakulaʻi a nā aliʻi ʻai moku. | The coconut trees pushed over by the ruling chiefs. |
| 2311 | Nihoa i ka moku manu. | Nihoa, island of birds. |
| 2440 | ʻO Kauaʻi nui moku lehua, ʻāina nui makekau. | Great Kauaʻi, isle of warriors and land of men ever on the defense. |
| 2451 | ʻO ke aliʻi lilo i ka leʻaleʻa a mālama ʻole i ke kanaka me ke kapu akua, ʻaʻole ia he aliʻi e kū ai i ka moku. | The chief who is taken with pleasure-seeking and cares not for the welfare of the people or the observation of the kapu of the gods, is not the chief who will become a ruler. |
| | [Said by Kekūhaupiʻo to Kamehameha. Advice to young people that success comes not by seeking idle pleasure but by living up to one’s beliefs and caring for the welfare of others.] |
| 2467 | ʻO Kilohana ia, he ʻaweʻawe moku. | That is the Kilohana of the broken bundle cords. |
| | [Said of Kilohana above Līhuʻe on Kauaʻi. An old trail went by here, leading from Kona to Koʻolau. Robbers hid there and waylaid lone travelers or those in small companies and robbed them of their bundles.] |
| 2558 | Paʻa ka moku i ka helēuma. | The ship is held fast by the anchor. |
| | [Said of one who is married.] |
| 2622 | Peʻe kua o Kaʻulahaimalama; o Kekūhaupiʻo ka makua; hilinaʻi aʻe i ka pale kai, kālele moku aʻe ma hope. | Kaʻulahaimalama is secretive; Kekūhaupiʻo (Stands-leaning) is her father; she leans against the canoe side and rests against the back of the canoe. |
| | [Said of one who tries to conceal the true offender by pretending to know nothing.] |
| 2698 | Pua ka uahi o kāʻeʻaʻeʻa moku o Hina. | Up rose the smoke of the experts of the island of Hina. |
| | [Said of the quickness of the athletes of Molokaʻi — they were so fast that they smoked.] |
| 2831 | Ua nahā nā moku. | Broken away are the islands. |
| | [Said when the islands are out of sight.] |