Wehewehe Wikiwiki Hawaiian language dictionaries

1. nvs. Foster child, adopted child; foster, adopted.

• Examples:
  • Keiki hānai, foster child.
  • Lawe hānai, to adopt a child.
  • Makua hānai, foster parent.
  • Kāna hānai, his adopted child.

2. nvt. To raise, rear, feed, nourish, sustain; provider, caretaker (said affectionately of chiefs by members of the court).

• Examples:
  • Hānai holoholona, to feed and care for domestic animals.
  • Makamaka hānai, generous and hospitable friend.
  • Hānai maila ʻoia iāia i ka meli (Kanl. 32.13), he fed him the honey.
• Related:
  • Hānai ā momona, to fatten.
• References:
  • Cf. akua hānai, hanaiāhuhu, hanaina.
  • PPN faangai .

3. n. Body of a kōkō net carrier, and cords attached to it; fish net or trap, as for ʻoʻopu fish; kite.

4. Same as hanahanai.

5. n. Hawaiʻi name for mānai, needle.

6. vi. To skim along.

hamani, To feed, as paper into a printer or copy machine.

• Source:
  • Existing dictionary word, Extended meaning
• Examples:
  • Ua hoʻopaʻa ʻia ka mīkini paʻi ma ka hānai ʻakomi. The printer has been set to auto feed.
• Related:
  • Hānai kaʻe. To edge feed.
  • Hānai waena. To center feed.
  • Hānai ʻakomi. To auto feed.

hamani, To feed, assist, as in basketball and most team sports except baseball.

• Source:
  • Existing dictionary word, ext.mng.
• Examples:
  • Iā Magic Johnson ka nui loa o nā hānai o ka NBA holoʻokoʻa. Magic Johnson has the most assists in the entire NBA.
• Related:
  • Mea hānai, hānai. Setter.
• References:
  • See hāʻawi, to serve, in volleyball; to set or set up (the ball), as from number 2 to number 3. Niʻihau Cf. hānai puʻupuʻu, paʻi ulele.

Radius. (CMH.) Also called kahahānai.

Strings knotted into a kōkō (net) that surrounds and sup- ports a calabash.

1. To adopt. Bertelmann v. Cockett, 24 Haw. 230, 232 (1918). 2. To raise. 3. One fed or sustained by another; a foster child; a ward (AP). 4. To act the part of a parent towards an orphan; to foster (AP). 5. To pasture.