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1. nvs., Minute particle, grain, crumb, gram, speck, tiny bit, scrap, minutia; small, little, powdery.

• Examples:
  • Ka hāʻule ʻana o kekahi huna o ke kānāwai (Luka 16.17), the voiding of one dot of the law.
• Related:
  • This word is similar to hune #2.
• References:
  • Cf. hunaahi, huna kai, huna kaua, huna lepo, hunalewa, huna olonā.

2. nvs., Hidden secret; hidden.

• Examples:
  • Wahi huna, hidden place, sexual part.
  • Lua huna, secret cave.
  • Mea huna, secret.
  • Kahi huna (Oihk. 18.7), nakedness.
• References:
  • Cf. huna, a stative usually following nouns, and the transitive verb hūnā.
  • PNP funa .

3. (Cap.) n., Eleventh night of the month.

• References:
  • Malo 35.

4. n., Common, fine, red seaweeds (Hypnea 🌐 spp.), irregularly and more or less densely branching, thorny looking; eaten cooked, furnishes a good colloid when boiled.

vt., To hide, conceal, disguise, secret; confidential; covert.

• Examples:
  • He mea ia i hūnā ʻia, this was a hidden thing.
  • He manaʻo e hūnā, a thought to be hidden.
• Related:
  • hoʻohūnā Caus/sim.; To hide deliberately.
    • Ua hoʻohūnā ʻoe i ka naʻauao mai kō lākou naʻau aku (Ioba 17.4), you have closed their minds to understanding.
• References:
  • Cf. huna #2, peʻe #1.
  • PPN fuu , PNP fuuna- (Rennell huunaki), PEP naʻa .