Wehewehe Wikiwiki Hawaiian language dictionaries

1. Transformation. Loli, hoʻolilo, hoʻololi, huli, hoʻohuli.

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  • Also: kāhuli, lolina; kuanoni (as color); hulihia (complete); ʻoʻolopū (rare); mīkololia (as appearance); ʻōkeʻe (direction); kaʻa mea (as the wind, or an idea); change into, kū.
  • Time of change, huliau.
  • To change form, hoʻokūākino.
  • To change skin from chrysalis state, māunu.
  • Changes of instrument, hoʻololi ʻana maloko o ka palapala (legal).
  • To cause or induce change, hoʻohuli.
  • To change clothes, hoʻololi i ka lole.
  • Change the mind (of someone else), hoʻohuli manaʻo.

2. Money. Kenikeni, keni; wāhi (to change, as a hundred dollar bill); small change, ʻōkeni, mea heleleʻi.

• Examples:
  • Have you change? He keni nō kāu?

As from a purchase. Koena.

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  • Loose change. Kālā heleleʻi, kenikeni.
  • To change or break, as a twenty-dollar bill. Wāwahi.

To change or replace, as in a search-and-replace feature in a computer program. Kuapo.

• Examples:
  • To find and change, search and replace. Huli a kuapo.
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  • To not make any change, leave as is, as in a computer program. Waiho.

• Related:
  • Chemical change. Loli kemikala.
  • Geologic change. Loli honua.
  • To change something into a different form or product. Hoʻolilo.

A monumental change. Hopena kūloli.

e ano hou ae, e hoololi.