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1. nvt. To scratch, mark, check, draw, sketch, cut, cut open or slice lengthwise, as fish or animals; to operate, as on the sick; to give a grade or mark to; to engrave; a line in mathematics; punctuation or other mark, as an accent mark; stripe, as in the flag or of enlisted men in the Armed Forces; a grade, as in school; checkmark, long striped cloth.

• Examples:
  • He hana kaha ea, deprivation of livelihood; literally, life-cutting activity.
  • He aha koʻu kaha? What was my grade?
• Related:
  • hoʻokaha Caus/sim.
• References:
  • See kaha kiʻi, kaha palapalaʻāina.
  • PPN tafa .

2. loc.n. Place (often followed by a qualifier, as kahakai, kahaone, kahawai, and used without ke, as hele i kahakai, go to the beach); in legends, a hot dry shore (PH 74, 84; FS 173).

• Examples:
  • (Gram. 8.6.) ʻO kēia ka mea ulu o koʻu kaha, this is what grows on my place.
• References:
  • PPN tafa .

3. vi. To swoop, as a kite; to be poised, soar, as a bird (less used than kīkaha); to go by, pass by, to turn and go on; to surf, body surf (FS 153).

• Examples:
  • Kaha ka lā ma ke kua o Lehua (UL 238), the sun passes to the back of Lehua [Island].
• Related:
  • hoʻokaha Caus/sim.
• References:
  • PEP tafa , tasa .

4. vt. To desolate, plunder, cheat.

• Examples:
  • Ua kaha akula ka nalu o kuʻu ʻāina, the waves of my land have swept everything away [said of famine].
• Related:
  • hoʻokaha Caus/sim.; to extort.
• References:
  • Cf. pākaha.

5. n. Stage of a foetus in which limbs begin to develop.

• Related:
  • Also: mana.

6. vs. Proud, haughty.

• Rare
• References:
  • See hoʻokahakaha.

7. n. A kind of tapa.

• References:
  • Kam. 76:111.

hehele, To drive, in basketball.

• Source:
  • Existing dictionary word, Extended meaning
• Examples:
  • Ua kaha palamimo ʻo Ioredāne ma waena o nā kūpale ʻehā. Jordan slyly cut right through the four defenders.
• Related:
  • Kīloi kaha. Lead pass; to throw such a pass.

kikino Line.

• Source:
  • Existing dictionary word
• Related:
  • ʻĀpana kaha. Line segment.
  • Helu kaha. To tally.
  • Also: laina, kaha laina.
• References:
  • See huina kaha.

1. v., To scratch; to make marks; to write; to make marks indefinitely.

2. To cut; to hew, as timber.

3. To cut open, as a fish or animal; to rip open, as the belly of a person. Amos #1:13.

4. To turn about and go away; to go off; to set out to go. Laieik. 67.

5. Hoo. To seize; to take with one's knowledge, but without his consent; to rob; to take what is another's. See hookaha, an extortion. See makaha.

1. v., To stand sideways; to stand up on the edge like the comb of a cock; to tread water; to swim standing up. Laieik. 92.

2. To land or be thrown on the shore from the surf without a surf-board.

3. FIG. To press the land on the back, as when one lands on shore in the surf; e kaha i ka nalu; hence the proverbial expression, ua kaha aku la ka nalu o knu aina, means (LIT. The surf has pressed upon my land) to have a famine for land, i. e., to press, to squeeze the people for food.

1. s., A scratch; a mark; a letter.

2. In mathematics, a line.

3. A strip of barren land on the sea shore; hence,

4. Barren land anywhere where upland kalo will not grow, but the people depend on another place.

5. The channel of a small stream. See kahawai and kahakai.

1. s., A kind of paper or cloth.

2. The crack of a whip; the report of a pistol.

3. Robbery; plunder; rapine; oppression.

v., To be fat; to be plump; to be full, as a well-fed animal. Kin.41:2.

s., Largeness; fatness; plumpness; aohe io o ke kaha.

1. n., A scratch; a mark; a letter.

2. n., In mathematics, a line.

3. n., A strip of land along the shore; barren land.

4. n., Channel of a stream. See kahawai.

5. n., [Mod.] A kind of cloth striped lengthwise. Also known as halua.

land unsuited for upland taro growth. Land section, Kohala, Hawaii.

v., To be fat; to be plump; to be full, as a well-fed animal.

1. v., To scratch; to mark the surface of; to write; to make indefinite marks.

2. v., To cut; to hew, as timber.

3. v., To cut open, as a fish, animal, or person.

4. v., To depart from a straight course; to start aside.

5. v., To keep clear of; to withdraw from and go a different way, as in avoiding any obstruction.

6. v., To shoot off for the shore on incoming surf. (Laieik. p. 92.)

7. v., To cover over completely as by a great tidal wave. (A word used by an ancient alii (chief) of Hamakua, Hawaii, in describing the desolation caused by a famine: Ua kaha aku la ka nalu o kuu aina; Literally, the surf of my land, or place, has swept everything away. Surf here means famine.)

8. v., To desolate; to sweep away; to oppress; to create general destruction.

n., Largeness; fatness; plumpness: aohe io o ke kaha.

A line in mathematics.

Land where food does not grow, mostly on an islandʻs leeward side. See au.

To pass by; to turn and go on.

to draw, make a scratch, cut open.

1. Mark (signature). Kapule v. Mokuhiwa, 12 Haw. 15, 16 (1899). 2. To write; a mark (AP). 3. Any area where taro could not be cultivated (ESH). 4. A strip of land along the shore; barren land (AP). Also, kona kaha.