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1. nvs. Floating, buoyant; moored, afloat, adrift; to drift, lie at anchor, as a fishing canoe (For. 4:295); calm, still, as water; anchor.

• Examples:
  • Huki ka lana (Nak. 87), pull in the anchor.
  • Lana ke koko, buoyant blood [of youth]; to circulate, of blood; high blood pressure (Kam. 64:43).
  • Lana ka manaʻo, hopeful, without worry, thoughtful; to want.
  • Inā e maʻi kekahi kanaka, lana kona manaʻo i ke kauka, when a person is sick, he wants a doctor.
  • Lana mālie iho hoʻi ka manaʻo me ka nani lei ʻawapuhi (song), thoughts of the beauty of the ginger lei are serene.
• Related:
  • hoʻolana Caus/sim.; To cause to float, launch; to right a canoe. Figuratively, to launch a project; cheerful, unworrying, hopeful; to cheer up, encourage (Mat. 14.27), be of good cheer; to lighten grief, as by taking a mourner on a trip and away from the grave of the one he mourns.
    • Home hoʻolana maʻi, convalescent home.
    • Hoʻolana maʻi, to ease the pain of sickness.
    • Hoʻolana ka manaʻo, to have hopes.
    • Hoʻolana kaumaha, to ease grief, condolence.
    • Hoʻolana i ka wai ke ola, life barely surviving; semiconscious.
• References:
  • Cf. hālana, manaʻolana.
  • Probably PPN langa .

2. n. Lowest floor of the oracle tower where offerings were placed.

• References:
  • Malo 176.
  • Cf. lananuʻu, mamao, nuʻu.

3. vs. To be aware of noises as one wakes.

• Examples:
  • Lana ka hiamoe, awakening from sleep.

4. n. Frog.

• Source:
  • Latin rana, a genus.
• Related:
  • Also: rana.

Nominalizing suffix.

• References:
  • Gram. 6.2.2.
  • Cf. kaulana, kūlana, manaʻolana.
  • PNP -langa.