1. n. privilege or rights, as in a computer network.
2. nvt. right, privilege, concern, responsibility, title, business, property, estate, portion, jurisdiction, authority, liability, interest, claim, ownership, tenure, affair, province; reason, cause, function, justification; small piece of property, as within an ahupuaʻa; blood relative through whom a relationship to less close relatives is traced, as to in-laws. |
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| Ch.1 p.6 para.1 sent.1 | A hiki kēia i Waiʻāpuka, kahi i mālama ʻia ai ʻo Lāʻieikawai, ʻike ihola ʻo ia, ʻaʻole he kuleana kūpono o kēlā wahi e noho ʻia ai e nā aliʻi. | He went to Waiapuka, where Laieikawai was being guarded, and saw no place there set off for chiefs to dwell in. |
| Ch.1 p.6 para.2 sent.3 | ʻAʻole hoʻi he makani o kēia luawai e kuleana ai lā hoʻi ka ʻaleʻale ʻana o ka wai, me he mea lā, he mea e ʻauʻau ana a ʻike aʻe nei iaʻu, peʻe iho nei.” | No wind ripples the water on this pool. It is like a person bathing, who has hidden from me." |
| Ch.6 p.35 para.1 sent.2 | I ia manawa a ka makāula i ʻōlelo aku ai i ke aliʻi i nā kumu a me nā kuleana o kona hele ʻana, a pau ia, a laila, na ka makāula ka nīnau hope iā ʻAiwohikupua, akā hoʻi, ma ka pāʻewaʻewa o kā ke aliʻi ʻōlelo ʻana me ka ʻōlelo aku he huakaʻi kaʻapuni kāna. | When the seer had told the business on which he had come and his reason for it, that was enough. Then it was the seer's turn to question Aiwohikupua, but the chief told only half the story, saying that he was on a sight-seeing tour. |
| Ch.7 p.39 para.3 sent.2 | Akā, no ko kāua lawe ʻana iā kāua i kāne hoʻāo ʻoe naʻu, a pēlā hoʻi wau iā ʻoe, no laila, ke hāʻawi lilo aku nei wau i kēia kapa a hiki i kou lā e manaʻo mai ai iaʻu ma nā hoʻohiki a kāua, a laila, loaʻa kou kuleana e ʻimi aʻe ai iaʻu a loaʻa i luna o Mauna Kea, a laila, hōʻike aʻe ʻoe iaʻu, a laila, hui kino kāua.” | but as we are betrothed, you to me and I to you, therefore I give away this mantle until the day when you remember our vows, then you must seek me, and you will find me above on the White Mountain; show it to me there, then we shall be united." |
| Ch.14 p.72 para.4 sent.4 | ʻAʻole o ʻolua kuleana e piʻi mai ai i ʻaneʻi, no ka mea, ua hoʻonoho ʻia mai wau ma ʻaneʻi he kiaʻi maka mua no ke aliʻi, a naʻu nō e hoʻokuke aku i nā mea a pau i hiki mai ma ʻaneʻi me ke kuleana ʻole. | you two have no business to come up here, for I am the outpost of the princess's guards and it is my business to drive back all who come here; |
| Ch.14 p.72 para.6 sent.1 | ʻĪ maila ʻo Mailehaʻiwale, “ʻAʻole wau e ʻae aku i ko ʻolua manaʻo, no ka mea, ʻo koʻu kuleana nō ia i hoʻonoho ʻia ai ma kēia wahi e kipaku aku i ka poʻe hele mai i uka nei e like me ʻolua.” | Said Mailehaiwale, "I will not let you; for I am put here to drive off everybody who comes up here like you two." |
| Ch.14 p.73 para.5 sent.2 | E kū ʻoe a hele aku, no ka mea, ʻaʻole o ʻolua kuleana o kēia wahi. | haste and go back, for you two have no business here; |
| Ch.14 p.74 para.8 sent.5 | Ua ʻōlelo aku wau iā ʻoe i kēlā pō ma mua ʻaʻole ou kuleana ma kēia wahi! | I told you before that you had no business in this place, |
| Ch.14 p.75 para.1 sent.1 | A ʻike ihola ʻo Hauaʻiliki ʻaʻole he kuleana hou e loaʻa ai ʻo Lāʻieikawai, a laila, hoʻomākaukau aʻela nā wāʻa no ka hoʻi i Kauaʻi. | When Hauailiki saw that he had no further chance to win Laieikawai, then he made the canoe ready to go back to Kauai, |
| Ch.15 p.79 para.3 sent.3 | ʻO wai ko ʻolua kuleana o uka nei, a ʻo wai ko ʻolua makamaka?” | What business have you up here and who will befriend you?" |
| Ch.16 p.81 para.1 sent.3 | Pane maila ke kiaʻi nui, “E hoʻi ʻolua ʻānō! Mai lohi, a ʻaʻole hoʻi e kali, no ka mea, ua kapu ke aliʻi! ʻAʻole nō ou kuleana ma kēia wahi, a ʻaʻole nō hoʻi e hiki iā ʻoe ke manaʻo mai he mau kaikuahine mākou nou; ua hala i ia manawa!” | Said the head guard, "Return at once, linger not, delay not your going, for the princess is taboo, you have not the least business in this place; and never let the idea come to you that we are your sisters; that time has passed." |
| Ch.18 p.91 para.8 sent.2 | Alia naʻe wau e hoʻokō i ka ʻume a ka mea nāna i ʻume iā kāua e like me kona makemake, akā, e hoʻākāka aʻe wau i koʻu kuleana i hiki mai ai iā Kauaʻi nei mai kahi lōʻihi mai. | now I put off the match which the master of ceremonies has chosen. But let me explain my object in coming so far as Kauai. |
| Ch.18 p.91 para.8 sent.3 | ʻO ia ala, ʻo ʻAiwohikupua koʻu kuleana i hiki ai i kēia ʻāina no kuʻu lohe ʻana aʻe nei ua hoʻāo ʻo ia ala me Poliʻahu. | That fellow there, Aiwohikupua, is my reason for coming to this land, because I heard that he was married to Poliahu; |
| Ch.30 p.165 para.6 sent.3 | Ma ke noi a Lāʻieikawai e hoʻopakele iā Lāʻielohelohe a me kāna kāne, no laila, ua māʻalo aʻe ka pilikia mai o lāua aʻe, a no lāua kekahi kuleana ma ka ʻāina ma ia hope iho. | At the Request of Laieikawai to spare Laielohelohe and her husband, the danger passed them by, and they became rulers over the land thereafter. |
| Ch.34 p.187 para.5 sent.4 | ʻAkahi nō a maopopo iaʻu nā kumu a me ke kuleana o kona noho lōʻihi ʻana i lalo.” | for the first time I understand why his business takes him so long down below." |
| Ch.34 p.189 para.2 sent.1 | A ʻōlelo maila ʻo Moanalihaikawaokele i mua o Kaʻōnohiokalā, “Ua hewa kāu hana, e Kaʻōnohiokalā ē, no ka mea, ua haumia loa ʻoe, a no laila, ʻaʻole e loaʻa hou iā ʻoe he wahi noho i loko o Kahakaekaea, a ʻo kou uku hoʻopaʻi, e lilo ana ʻoe i mea e hoʻomākaʻukaʻu ʻia ai ma nā alanui, a ma ka puka o nā hale, a ʻo kou inoa, he lapu, a ʻo kāu mea e ʻai ai, ʻo nā pulelehua, a ma laila kou kuleana a mau i kāu pua.” | And Moanalihaikawaokele said to Kaonohiokala, "You have sinned, O Kaonohiokala, for you have defiled yourself and, therefore, you shall no longer have a place to dwell within Kahakaekaea, and the penalty you shall pay, to become a fearsome thing on the highway and at the doors of houses, and your name is Lapu, Vanity, and for your food you shall eat moths; and thus shall you live and your posterity." |
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