• to grunt, groan, moan, sigh, hum, coo,
• mourn, grieve, complain;
• grief, sorrow;
• an exclamation of delight or assent; to exclaim thus;
• to grunt ‘yes, yes!’ (saying that you are listening)
ʻū
uā
var. spelling ofʻuwā, to shout, cry out, yell, sound loud, shout, racket...
ʻū
ē₁
to cry, weep, lament, mourn; a cry, lamentation, weeping. cf. auē, haʻuhaʻu uwē.
ʻū
uī₁
var. spelling ofʻuwī₁, to squeak, squeal; to gnash, as teeth; such sounds...
ʻū
ō
to bellow, roar, shout loudly, howl. see kūō, leo uwō.
ʻū
ʻū₁
redup. ofʻū₁, to grunt, groan, moan, sigh, hum, coo, mourn, grieve, complain...; to stutter, stammer.
ʻū
uwā
to shout, cry out, yell, sound loud, shout, racket. see wā, noise.
to make someone pay; to levy a tax, fine, assess, charge see uku₁, pay, payment, wages, fee, fare, toll, commission, reward, recompense, compensation, remittance, tuition, prize, fine, tax...
kula
uku
private school. lit., paying school.
kuleana
uku
pohō
liability, i.e. a legal responsibility or obligation. lit., responsibility (to) pay damages.
per diem, i.e. a daily allowance for living expenses while traveling in connection with oneʻs work. lit., pay (for) means of support (for the) day. also ola lā.
piece labor, pay by the job rather than according to time, as on sugar plantations; used in pidgin for any work that everyone should pitch in gladly to finish; contract labor. lit., finished pay.
uku
pohō
damages; to pay damages.
uli₁any dark color, including the deep blue of the sea, the ordinary green of vegetation, and the dark of black clouds PPn *ʻuli, black, dark in colour
ao
uli
₁
firmament, sky, blue vault of heaven.
ʻā
uli
dark.
ʻele
uli
₁
grayish black.
ʻele
uli
₂
a rare type of dark-gray or perfumed tapa. (FS 18–9)
hā
uli
₁
blackish, swarthy, dark.
hā
uli
₂
bruise.
hā
uli
₃
• small fish with formerly transparent body beginning to darken;
• embryo of human or animal.
to darken, to make blue, green, etc.; to make the skin black and blue; to bruise see uli₁, any dark color, including the deep blue of the sea, the ordinary green of vegetation, and the dark of black clouds; the black-and-blue of a bruise...
ʻina
uli
black ʻina, perhaps young of Echinometra oblonga, or one of several other sea urchins.
same as konoʻele (darkness, as of a forest; said also of the inside of thighs thought to be darkened by the chafing of the malo; somewhat darker than konouli...), but perhaps less dark.
kope paʻi mua
uli
uli
blueline, i.e. a final proof made on photosensitive paper, in offset printing. lit., blue proof. also paʻi mua uliuli.
kua
uli
verdant countryside. lit., green back.
kūkae
uli
ink squirted by octopus to discolor water. fig., prostitute, as in whalers' days, so called because of their alleged cleverness at escaping from precarious situations. lit., black excreta.
kūpo
uli
befuddled, stupefied, mentally clouded, dazed, carried away with emotion, stricken. cf. pouli, dark; darkness, dark night. fig., ignorance...
laʻa
uli
sacred or doomed darkness, ignorance, gloom, the unknown, misfortune. cf. laʻa kea, lāʻau aliʻi.
a legendary land of plenty and joy, said to be on Hawaiʻi, where chiefs' children were raised; now a place name on several islands. lit., green cliff. see chant, pulelo and saying, glory.
• any dark color, including the deep blue of the sea, the ordinary green of vegetation, and the dark of black clouds;
• the black-and-blue of a bruise.
Some song composers avoid this word because connotations of evil or misfortune are associated with darkness and because Uli is a goddess of sorcery (seeUli₂). also uliuli.
to have an affinity for (something). [comb. hia- (to be disposed to) + ʻume.]
houpo
ʻume
pau
strong pulsation in solar plexis, heart attack.
kai
ʻume
lua
spring tide. lit., sea (affected by) doubled gravity. see kai maumau.
loko
ʻume
iki
shore fishpond with lanes leading in and/or out of the pond, used for trapping fish and probably only on Molokaʻi. lit., small pond drawing in. Summers-1964:12–19, 24
a sexual game for commoners, the counterpart of kilu, the chiefs' game. (Malo 214-15: ch 41). It was called ʻume, to draw, because players of opposite sex were drawn to one another. to pair off in the game.
ʻume
₃
fermata in music, hold, pause; to lengthen, as a sound.