Wehewehe Wikiwiki Hawaiian language dictionaries

1. vt., Split open from head to tail, as fish prepared for drying and salting; to slit thus; to hew out roughly, as a canoe; to make a hole or dig out.

• Examples:
  • Kūlepe mai ka mahi ʻai i nā ʻeka lepo (For. 5:683), the farmer dug out blocks of earth [in a taro patch].

2. vi., To flap, flutter; strong, of wind.

• Examples:
  • Kūlepe nā pepa i ka makani, the papers are flipped about by the wind.
  • Mai kūlepe i kaʻu hana, don't muss up my work.

3. n., Harelip. (Less common than ʻūlepe.)

To split a fish open from head to tail for salting and drying.

To blow, as the wind in the middle of a channel.