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1. nvi., Fruit, tuber, egg, produce, yield, ovum, seed, grain, offspring; meat as in ʻopihi shell or ʻalamihi crab; to bear fruit, tuber or seed; to bear a child; fruitful.

• Examples:
  • Ā e hana aku ʻoe iā ʻoukou e hua aʻe (Oihk. 26.9), and will make you fruitful.
• Related:
  • For kinds of eggs, see hua ʻaluʻalu, huamakani, hua moa.
  • Hua moʻa loa, hard-boiled egg.
  • Hua moʻa hapa, soft-boiled egg.
  • Hua ʻai, fruit.
  • Hua kanu, seed.
  • hoʻohua Caus/sim.; To bear fruit, reproduce, produce, yield; to sire or give birth; to swell high, as a wave (UL 36).
    • Nalu hoʻohua, a swelling wave.
    • Hoʻohua kawowo, a medicine for women to induce conception.
• References:
  • PPN fua.

2. n., Round object, as pill or bead.

• References:
  • Cf. huaale.

3. n., Result, effect; credit, as for a university course.

• Examples:
  • Ka hua o kā ʻoukou hana, the result of your work.
• Related:
  • hoʻohua Caus/sim.; To have as a result, because of, ever since (followed by nō).
    • Hoʻohua nō ka make ʻana o ka makua kāne, pau kō mākou ʻike ʻana iāia, ever since his father's death, we've never seen him again.
    • Hoʻohua nō i ka huhū ʻana o ke kupuna, ʻo ka hele nō ia, because of his grandparent's anger, he departed

4. n., Testicles.

• Examples:
  • Ka hele ā pala nā hua i ka moana, testicles rot at sea [a sailor lacks a sex partner].
  • He hua pēpē ʻia (Oihk. 21.20), broken testicles.
• References:
  • PNP fua.

5. Same as huahua #3, a vulgar gesture.

• Examples:
  • Hoʻopuʻu ka hua, to make this gesture.

6. nvi., Word, letter, figure, watchword, rallying cry, note in music; winning word in the Chinese gambling game of chee-fah; type; to speak.

• Examples:
  • Hoʻonoho hua, to set type.
  • Kāne kū i ke kala, kala i ka hua o ka waha (prayer), Kāne stand to forgive, forgive the words of the mouth.
  • Ā hua (For. 5:43), then speak [cf. pane #1].
• References:
  • Cf. hua helu, hua ʻōlelo.
  • PPN fua.

7. (Cap.) n., Name of the thirteenth night of the lunar month.

• Related:
  • Kapu Hua, monthly taboo nights of Mōhalu and Hua.
• References:
  • Malo 35.
  • PEP (f,s)ua.

8. (Cap.) n., Name of a star.

9. n., The bulging of the broadest part of a paddle blade.

10. See pai hua.

11. See paʻi hua.

kikino, Corm, as of taro.

• Source:
  • Traditional.
• References:
  • See ʻauhua.

kikino, Sound segment, in linguistics.

• Source:
  • Existing dictionary word, Extended meaning

1. n., The twelfth night after the new moon, the thirteenth day of the old Hawaiian month.

2. n., A producing; that which is produced; offspring.

3. n., Effect; that which follows from a cause.

4. n., A watchword; password; rallying cry.

5. n., Testicle; Syn: Opea.

6. n., Modernized, a letter or letters that spell the words of a language.

7. n., Fruit; fruitage.

8. n., Egg; ovum; seed.

Hill, northwest Kauaʻi. Lit., fruitful.