1. nvs.
• tree, plant, wood, timber, forest, thicket,
• stick, pole, rod, splinter, club;
• blow or stroke of a club;
• strength, rigidness, hardness; stiff, as wood.
• male erection;
• to have formed mature wood, as of a seedling; wooden, woody;
2. n. wood.
3. nvs. medicine, medical.
4. n. medicine, medicinal drug, medication.
5. nvi. lump or knot in the flesh, as eased by the rubbing kahi massage; to feel such a knot or stiffness; cramp. Charley horse; to have a cramp.
6. n. picture frame.
7. n. general name for canoe endpiece.
8. nights of the moon beginning with Lāʻau, see:
Lāʻau Kū Kahi - 18th day of the lunar month...
Lāʻau Kū Lua - 19th day of the lunar month...
Lāʻau Pau - 20th day of the lunar month...
see also Malo Ch. 12: Divisions of the year, 30-36.
9. placename. ridge, Hanalei district, Kauaʻi. see Honopū. Hill, Hāmākua, Hāwaiʻi. Point, southwest tip of Molokaʻi. Also called Kalaeokalāʻau. (UL 240.) Street, Ala Wai section, Honolulu. lit.: wood. |
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| Ch.16 p.84 para.5 sent.3 | ʻAʻole i ʻupuʻupu, lohe akula lāua i ka hū a ka makani a me ke kamumu o nā lāʻau e hina ana ma ʻō a ma ʻō, a laila, hoʻomanaʻo lāua i ka ʻōlelo a ke kia manu, “Inā e hū ana ka makani, ʻo ua moʻo lā ia.” | not long after they heard the sighing of the wind and the humming of the trees bending back and forth; then they remembered the bird catcher's words, "If the wind hums, that is from the lizard." |
| Ch.21 p.107 para.4 sent.2 | Ia kaua nō i moe iho nei, hele aku nei nō kaua a ma nahelehele, moe ʻoe i kou pūha lāʻau, a ʻo wau nō hoʻi ma koʻu pūha lāʻau. | as we slept we went into the thicket: you slept in your hollow tree and I in mine: |
| Ch.23 p.122 para.3 sent.1 | I ia manawa, ʻōlelo akula ʻo Maliʻo iā Halaaniani, “E piʻi ʻoe ma luna o kekahi lāʻau, ma kahi ou e ʻike aku ana iā Lāʻielohelohe, a ma laila ʻoe e noho ai. | Then Malio said to Halaaniani, "You climb up in the lehua tree where you can see Laielohelohe, and there you stay. |
| Ch.23 p.122 para.5 sent.2 | Iā ia nei ma luna o ka lāʻau, kani ana ka pū lāʻī a Maliʻo. | "When he was up the tree, Malio's trumpet sounded, |
| Ch.23 p.123 para.1 sent.1 | Piʻi aʻela ʻo Halaaniani i luna o kekahi lāʻau ma kahi kūpono iā Lāʻielohelohe. | Halaaniani climbed the tree right over where Laielohelohe was wont to sit. |
| Ch.23 p.123 para.1 sent.3 | I ia wā nō hoʻi ko Halaaniani hoʻolei ʻana iho i ka pōpō lehua mai luna iho o ka lāʻau, a hāʻule pololei ihola ma ke alo ponoʻī o Lāʻielohelohe. | Halaaniani dropped the bunch of lehua flowers down from the tree, and it fell directly in front of Laielohelohe. |
| Ch.34 p.187 para.1 sent.5 | ʻAʻole ia he manu maoli, he mau manu lāʻau ia. | they are not real birds, only wooden birds; |
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