Wehewehe Wikiwiki Hawaiian language dictionaries

1. n. Shelf, perch, platform; roost, as for chickens; fish spear rack; rack for suspending water gourds and other household objects; rack attached to booms of double canoe to hold spears and other objects; ladder (see alahaka, haka ʻūlili).

• Examples:
  • Haka kau a ka manu, a perch for birds to light upon [a promiscuous woman].
• References:
  • PPN fata.

2. n. Recipient; medium, oracle, one possessed.

• Examples:
  • Haka waiwai (Kep. 117), recipient of wealth.

3. n. Crested feather helmet, so called because the crest perches on the helmet.

4. nvs. Hole, breach, open space, vacancy; empty, vacant, full of holes or spaces.

• Related:
  • hoʻohaka Caus/sim.; To make openings holes, spaces; to create space; full of holes. Figuratively, hungry.
• References:
  • Cf. hakahaka, ʻolohaka.

5. nvt. To stare, gaze.

• Examples:
  • (Hal. 22.17) Haka hele, to stare or examine carefully as one walks.
  • Ua haka malū aku kona mau maka i ka mea ʻilihune (Hal. 10.8), his eyes are privily set against the poor.

6. vt. To place wood in a ground oven, to lay an oven fire.

7. n. Heart, hearts, in a deck of cards.

• Eng.

kikino, Heart, i.e. the shape.

• Existing dictionary word, Extended meaning