Wehewehe Wikiwiki Hawaiian language dictionaries

1. vt., To rub with oil, to mix or stew with sauce or gravy.

• Examples:
  • Lawe ipu kākele (For. 5:81), bearer of ointment calabash.
• References:
  • Cf. kelekele, greasy.

2. vt., To cast with hook and line, as for ulua.

• Examples:
  • Naʻu e kākele a mau ia pua (song), I will cast and get this flower.

3. vi., To slide, skid, glide, to go rambling at will and hence to do as one pleases.

• Examples:
  • Kākele mai, come on; act now. Nāna i kākele ke kaona lā (song), she's the one to do the town.

hehele, Transform, i.e. sliding in plate tectonics, in geology.

• Source:
  • Existing dictionary word, Extended meaning
• Examples:
  • Palena kākele. Transform boundary.
• References:
  • Cf. kuʻi, neʻe ʻoā.

To cast with hook and line, as for ulua.

To besmear the skin, as with oil; to anoint.