1. n. chicken, red jungle chicken (Gallus gallus), fowl, as brought to Hawaiʻi by Polynesians; for some people, an ʻaumakua.
2. n. a native banana fruit with large and plump skin and flesh yellow, edible raw or cooked, growing in a small bunch.
3. n. tufted, green, leafless plants (Psilotum nudum and P. complanatum), about 30 cm long, with many slender branches, growing in most tropical countries, both on trees and on the ground. Hawaiians used them medicinally (the spore powder as a purge), and their children played a game with them.Sometimes called moa nahele, pipi.
4. n. children's game played with moa twigs; the tiny branches were interlocked, and the players pulled on the ends; the loser's twigs broke and the winner crowed like a rooster (moa).
5. n. a dart, tapering at one end, usually 25 to 60 cm long, used in a sliding game on which bets were made.
6. trunkfish (Ostracion meleagris).
7. n. stone fastened to rope, used as a war weapon, said to be triangular in shape.
8. n. a small gastropod mollusk. |
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| Ch.2 p.7 para.3 sent.2 | Kau akula ʻo ia ma luna o ka waʻa a holo akula a like a like o ka moana, loaʻa ka manaʻo ʻino i nā mea waʻa, no ka mea, ua uluhua lāua i ua makāula nei no ka hiamoe a me ka ʻalalā mau ʻana o kahi puaʻa a ʻoʻoʻō mau nō hoʻi o kahi moa. | He went on board the canoe and had sailed half the distance, when the paddlers grew vexed because the prophet did nothing but sleep, while the pig squealed and the cock crowed. |
| Ch.2 p.8 para.4 sent.1 | A laila, ʻōlelo maila nā mea waʻa, “Ua uluhua māua no kou hiamoe a me ka ʻalalā mau o ko wahi puaʻa a me ke kani mau a ko wahi moa, no laila, kulikuli. | Then the men said: '"We two wearied of your constant sleeping and the pig's squealing and the cock's crowing; there was such a noise; |
| Ch.6 p.36 para.1 sent.1 | Piʻi akula lāua i loko o nā ulu lāʻau loloa, i ka hihia paʻa o ka nāhelehele me ka luhi a hiki lāua ma kahi e kokoke ana i Paliuli, lohe lāua i ka leo o ka moa. | They made way with difficulty through high forest trees and thickets of tangled brush, until, at a place close to Paliuli, they heard the crow of a cock. |
| Ch.6 p.36 para.1 sent.3 | Hoʻomau akula nō lāua i ka piʻi a lohe hou lāua i ka leo o ka moa (ʻo ka moa kualua ia). | They went on climbing, and heard a second time the cock crow (the cock's second crow this). |
| Ch.6 p.36 para.1 sent.6 | Aia ke kupuna wahine o Lāʻieikawai ke hōʻuluʻulu maila i nā moa e like me kāna hana mau.” | there is Laieikawai's grandmother calling together the chickens as usual." |
| Ch.25 p.131 para.8 sent.5 | I loko naʻe o ko ka makāula hoʻi ʻana, ʻaʻole ʻo ia i haʻalele i kāna mau mea i lawe mai ai mai Kauaʻi mai (ʻo ia ka puaʻa a me ka moa). | On his return, he did not leave the offerings which he had brought from Kauai thither, the pig and the cock. |
| Ch.26 p.135 para.5 sent.2 | Ala aʻela ʻo ia, a lālau akula i ka puaʻa a me ka moa, a hahau akula i mua o Lāʻieikawai, me ka ʻōlelo aku, “Pōmaikaʻi wau, e kuʻu Haku, i ka hōʻike ʻana mai a kuʻu akua iā ʻoe, no ka mea, he nui koʻu manawa i ukali aku ai iā ʻoe, me ka manaʻo, e loaʻa ka pōmaikaʻi maiā ʻoe mai. | he arose and brought the pig and the cock and held them out to Laieikawai, saying, "Blessed
am I, my mistress, that my god has shown you to me, for long have I followed you to win a blessing from you. |
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