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1. nvt., Work, labor, job, employment, occupation, duty, office, activity, function, practice, procedure, process, deal, incident, reason, action, act, deed, task, service, behavior; to work, labor, do, behave, commit, make, manufacture, create, transact, perform, prepare, happen; to develop, as a picture; to have a love affair (FS 115); to induce by sorcery; to handle (as a court case); to conduct (as a class). (Translated by many English words, but seldom by ‘work’.)

• Examples:
  • Hana ʻia, made, completed, wrought.
  • Ka haʻi ʻana i ka hana aku, active voice.
  • Poʻe hana, workers, employees.
  • Maikaʻi ka hana, well done.
  • Hana ā maikaʻi, fix.
  • Ka haʻi ʻana i ka hana ʻia mai, passive verb.
  • I … hana, when; as; while; at the time that.
  • I hele aku kona hana, ua lilo ka pāpale, when he went, the hat was gone.
  • Mea hana, tool; task; offering to ʻaumākua gods.
  • Ke hana mai ʻo Pele i kāna hana, when Pele does her work.
  • Ka hana ia a ka loea, ʻo ke akamai paheʻe ʻulu (chant), that is the way an expert does, smart in bowling.
  • ʻO ka hana, ua hana ʻia.
  • the work has been done [a completed task].
  • Hana maikaʻi i ka ʻāina, clear the soil well.
  • ʻAʻohe kona he maʻi maoli, he maʻi hana ʻia, his is not a natural sickness, it is induced by sorcery.
  • Hana ʻia maila ka wai ā ʻono (Puk. 15.25), the waters were made sweet.
• Related:
  • hoʻohana Caus/sim.; To use, employ, cause to work, carry out, administer, manage, encourage; use, employment, management, administration.
    • Luna hoʻohana, manager, administrative head.
    • Noho hoʻohana, to act or serve as manager.
    • Nā mea hoʻohana, tools, implements, or anything to work with.
• References:
  • Cf. hana wale, Puk. 12.47, and many examples below.
  • PNP sanga ; cf. Fijian.

2. vs., Worthless; provoked.

• Examples:
  • ʻAi mai nei hana kanaka a waiho mai nei i nā pā naʻu e holoi. This worthless person ate and left the dishes for me to wash.
• Related:
  • hoʻohana Caus/sim.; To tease, provoke, nag, plague; one who teases or provokes.
• References:
  • Cf. hana wale.

3. Same as kilohana, a tapa.

4. Same as hahana, warm.

• Rare
• References:
  • Cf. hanahana, kōhanahana, mahana, pumehana.
  • PPN fana .

5. n., Notch, as in a tree.

• References:
  • PPN kausanga .

Bay, valley (only in place names, as Hanalei, Hanapēpē. Also Hono-, as in Honolulu). (Gram. 8.1; Pukui, Elbert, and Mookini, 1974, 245–7,.) (PPN fanga.)

Nominalizing suffix.

• Cf. ʻana 3, Gram. 6.6.2.
• PPN -fanga [see kilohana 2] and PNP -sanga [see hauhana].

1. vs., Alert.

• Examples:
  • I hāna ka pō, i hāna ke ao, so the night may be alert, the day alert.

2. (Cap.) n., Name of a district and town, East Maui.

n.

1. Ridgepost supporting each end of the ridgepole.

2. Wood shavings (Kamakau). Rare.