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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 .

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.

kikino, Errand.

• Source:
  • Existing dictionary word
• Examples:
  • Nui kaʻu mau hana e hana ai i ke kaona i kēia lā. I have a lot of errands to do/run in town today.
• Related:
  • Also: ʻāpana hana.

kikino, Function, as on a calculator or computer keyboard.

• Source:
  • Existing dictionary word, Extended meaning
• Related:
  • Pihi hana (preceded by ke). Function key.
• References:
  • Cf. hahaina, lawelawe hana.
  • See hana hoʻomākalakala.

hamani, To take, as a test.

• Existing dictionary word, Extended meaning
• Examples:
  • Hana i ka hōʻike. To take a test.
• Related:
  • Also: kākau.
• References:
  • Cf. haku i ka hōʻike.

kikino Wood shavings. Dic.

v. To do; to work; to cause; used in the most extensive sense; to act; to labor.

2. To make; to do a thing; to affect; to produce. Rom. 3:32. To perform a duty; to cause a thing; to build, as an edifice.

3. To form for a particular purpose.

4. To observe a ceremony; to keep a command. Puk. 12:47. PASS. To cause to be done, i. e., to become. Puk. 15:25.

5. To be or become warm. See this in the compounds HAHANA, MA or MEHANA, HANAHANA, and KOEHANA. NOTE.—Hana is qualified by other words; hana paa, to bind; imprison. Luk. 3:20. Hana is often used in a causative sense. Oih. 3:12. Hana hou, to proceed to do again, or something similar. Oih. 5:3. Hana make, to destroy; kill. Rom. 14:15. Hana kanawai, to keep a law. Hana is often causative of the following verb. Isa. 42:2. Hana ino, to do badly. Hana kumu ole, to do without cause. Hoo. To cause or compete. Ezek. 14:23. To work; to afflict. Puk. 1:13. To refresh; to renew.

s. Work; labor; duty; office; calling; trade, &c.; hana mana, a miracle; hana a ka lani, the doing or the work of the chief.

s. Name of the white or wauki kapa.

s. Name of the middle post of a house; pou hana.

1. Work; labor: hana mana, a miracle; hana a ka lani, the doing or the work of the chief.

2. Duty.

3. Office; calling.

4. Trade.

5. Bleached wauke bark.

6. Tapa of the best material and of brilliant colors used to cover the outside of anything. Also called kilohana.

7. The four white sheets of tapa under the top sheet of a set of sleep-ing tapa.

The middle post on the end of a house; post that supports the end of the ridge pole.

HAN 104 HAN

1. To work; to labor.

2. Used in a most extensive sense of to cause and to act.

respite from heavy exhaled breathing. District, Maui.