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nvs., Full, complete, filled, loaded; full-blooded; completion, capacity, fullness; pregnant.

• Examples:
  • Piha loa, stuffed full.
  • Hoʻokaʻa piha, to pay in full.
  • Piha maikaʻi, well-filled, filled just right.
  • Hawaiʻi piha, pure Hawaiian.
  • Hoʻi mai nō ke kai i kona piha ʻana (Puk. 14.27), the sea returned to its wonted flow.
  • Iā lākou e piha ana ma Pāʻauhau (For. 5:411), while they crowded about at Pāʻauhau.
• Related:
  • hoʻopiha Caus/sim.; To fill, complete, pervade, stuff, eat one's fill, cram; to fill out, as a growing child; to breed, as of a female animal; to impregnate; to fill, as a tooth; to load, as a gun; to thread, as a needle.
    • Hoʻopiha ʻia i ka pulupulu, stuffed with cotton.
    • Moa hoʻopiha ʻia me ka laiki, chicken stuffed with rice.
• References:
  • Cf. piha makahiki, pihapiha, piha pono.

• Related:
  • See helu piha, waiū piha.

1. v., To be full, as a vessel or container. FIG. To be full of anger. Eset. 3:5.

2. To have conceived, as a female; to be pregnant; ua piha anei kela bipi wahine? ae, ua piha, is that cow with calf? she is.

3. Hoopiha. To fill; to cause to be full, as with water or other things.

4. To overflow its banks, as a river.

5. FIG. To fill, as the heart with joy or sorrow.

6. To be moved or energized by the Holy Spirit. Oih. 2:4.

7. To fill to overflowing.

1. s., Fullness; strength, as a high tide. Puk. 14:27.

2. Fullness of angry feelings.

adj., Full, as a container of any kind.

s., Name of a species of small fish.

adj., Full, as a container of any kind.

1. n., Fullness; completeness.

2. n., A species of small fish used for bait.

n., 1. A stone pounder; a poi pounder.

1. v., To be full, as a vessel or container.

2. v., Fig. To. be full of anger.

3. v., To have conceived young; to be pregnant: Ua piha anei kela bipi wahine? Ae, ua piha. Is that cow with calf? She is.

dripping water-trough. Land section, Hilo, Hawaii.