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nvs., Soul, spirit, ghost; dirge or song of lamentation (rare); spiritual.

• Examples:
  • ʻUhane ʻole, without a soul; shameless, like a beast.
  • Lele ka ʻuhane, the soul leaves [death].
  • Kuʻu i ka ʻuhane (Kin. 35.29), to give up the ghost.
  • Pili ʻuhane, spiritual.
  • ʻUhane ʻololī, thin, shriveled soul or ghost.
• PEP kufane , kusane .

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• Related:
  • Aʻo kahua ʻuhane. Spiritually-based learning.

Dirge, song of lamentation; soul, spirit of a person.

Soul. (Oihk. 5:1.)

Spirit, applied to the third person of the Trinity. (loane 1:32.) Hawaiians supposed that men had two souls each, that one died with the body, the other lived on—either visible or invisible as might be—but having no more connection with the deceased than his shadow. These ghosts could talk, cry, complain, whisper, and so on. Some persons were skillful in trapping them.