Wehewehe Wikiwiki Hawaiian language dictionaries

1. vs., Hot, warm, vehement.

• Examples:
  • Ua hanahana loa ka wī (Kin. 47.13), the famine was violent.
• References:
  • See hana #4, hahana, mahana #1, pumehana.
  • PPN fanafana .

2. vs., Sour, stinking.

v. To be servere; to be hard; to affect evilly; to afflict, as a famine. Kin. 47:13.

2. To be fatal; deadly, as sickness.

3. To be warm, as from violent exercise; to be warm, as by the sun or fire. NOTE.—This word is often used by foreigners as an intensive of hana, to do quickly or frequently, but Hawaiians never use it in this sense unless in imitation of foreigners. See HANA.

adj. Warm; heated, as with exercise or other ways. See HAHANA, MEHANA, &c. See the root HANA.

adj, Disagreeable to the smell; offensive; stinking; hanahana ka ai awaawa.

1. Warm, as a hot day; heated, as with exercise. See hana and the root, hana.

2. Offensive; sour; stinking; applies to food: hanahana ka ai awaawa.

(More properly written hahana.)

1. To be heated; to be exceedingly warm.

2. To be vehement or violent.