Wehewehe Wikiwiki Hawaiian language dictionaries

n., Offering, sacrifice.

• Examples:
  • Ka haina ʻawa, offering of kava.
  • Ka haina kanaka (KL. line 2098), human sacrifice.
• References:
  • Cf. hai, to sacrifice.

s., Hai, to speak, and ana. A speaking; a declaration.

1. v., A verb formed from the contracted hai ana. See hai. To tell; to relate; to declare; to speak.

2. To break, as a command; as a law. See hai #1.

3. To break, as a stick; hence,

4. To reject; to destroy; to take no care of, as one sick. NOTE.—The ideas of speaking, declaring, &c., seem to be nearly connected in Hawaiian with breaking.

1. s., A speaking; a declaration; a conversation.

2. A breaking, as of a stick or other thing; a breaking of a law.

v., To abuse; to be stingy of food; to withhold food from those who deserve it.

adj., Cruel; unmerciful; hard hearted.

adj., Cruel; unmerciful; hard-hearted.

n., [Hai, to speak, and ana participial ending.] A speaking; a declaration.

1. n., A declaration; a conversation.

2. n., A breaking, as of a stick or other thing.

3. n., A breaking of a law.

1. v., To be stingy of food.

2. v., To withhold anything from those who deserve it.

3. v., To forsake.

4. v., To act unkindly; to be ungrateful; to be unmindful of.

5. v., To abuse.

v., [Contraction of haiia, passive of the verb hai, to tell.] Tell; confess; declare; speak. (Used imperatively.)

to be cruel. Land section, Hamakua, Hawaii.