kaha
1. nvt. To scratch, mark, check, draw, sketch, cut, cut open or slice lengthwise, as fish or animals; to operate, as on the sick; to give a grade or mark to; to engrave; a line in mathematics; punctuation or other mark, as an accent mark; stripe, as in the flag or of enlisted men in the Armed Forces; a grade, as in school; checkmark, long striped cloth.
- Examples:
- He hana kaha ea, deprivation of livelihood; literally, life-cutting activity.
- He aha koʻu kaha? What was my grade?
- References:
- See kaha kiʻi, kaha palapalaʻāina.
- PPN tafa .
2. loc.n. Place (often followed by a qualifier, as kahakai, kahaone, kahawai, and used without ke, as hele i kahakai, go to the beach); in legends, a hot dry shore (PH 74, 84; FS 173).
- Examples:
- (Gram. 8.6.) ʻO kēia ka mea ulu o koʻu kaha, this is what grows on my place.
- References:
- PPN tafa .
3. vi. To swoop, as a kite; to be poised, soar, as a bird (less used than kīkaha); to go by, pass by, to turn and go on; to surf, body surf (FS 153).
- Examples:
- Kaha ka lā ma ke kua o Lehua (UL 238), the sun passes to the back of Lehua [Island].
- References:
4. vt. To desolate, plunder, cheat.
- Examples:
- Ua kaha akula ka nalu o kuʻu ʻāina, the waves of my land have swept everything away [said of famine].
- References:
- Cf. pākaha.
5. n. Stage of a foetus in which limbs begin to develop.
- References:
- See hoʻokahakaha.
7. n. A kind of tapa.
- References:
- Kam. 76:111.
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