Wehewehe Wikiwiki Hawaiian language dictionaries

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

• Related:
  • 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?

kikino, As from a purchase. Koena.

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

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

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

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

kikino, A monumental change. Hopena kūloli.

e ano hou ae, e hoololi.

h. he ano hou, he mau apana kala.

lŏ’lĭ; small change, ke’nĭke’nĭ lĭ‘ĭlĭ‘ĭ: to change, lŏ’lĭ, hŏ‘ŏlŏ’lĭ; change appearance, hō‘ănŏ‘ē; (become), lĭ’lŏ; (exchange), kŭă’pŏ; change form, hŏ‘ŏmălŭ’lě; change money, wāwa’hĭ kālā.

n, 1. He loli; he luli; he hooano e. 2. Na hapa dala.

v. E loli; e hoololi; hoo-ano e. Change money, e hoololi dala; e wawahi dala.