Wehewehe Wikiwiki Hawaiian language dictionaries

1. nvs., Human being, man, person, individual, party, mankind, population; subject, as of a chief; laborer, servant, helper; attendant or retainer in a family (often a term of affection or pride); human sacrifice (FS 111); physique; human, manly, pregnant, inhabited; Hawaiian; private individual or party, as distinguished from the government.

• Examples:
  • Koʻu kanaka, my helper, servant, etc.
  • Kaʻu kanaka, my man selected for a purpose.
  • Kanaka nō! A real man! Well done! People have come.
  • Mahalo ʻia ke kāne i ke kanaka maikaʻi (FS 205), the man was admired for his handsome physique.
  • He kanaka maoli, a true human, a mortal.
  • I wawā ʻia nō he hale kanaka, na wai e wawā ka hale kanaka ʻole? (name song for Kaʻahumanu), the inhabited house sounds with voices, who would talk loud in an uninhabited house?
• Related:
  • hoʻokanaka Caus/sim.; Manly, human, courageous; to become a servant or helper; to assume human shape, as a child in the womb.
    • See hoʻokanaka makua.
    • E hoʻokanaka, be a man.
    • E hoʻokanaka ʻoukou, ʻaʻole e hoʻonāwaliwali kō ʻoukou mau lima (2 Oihn. 15.7), be strong, let your hands not be weak.
• References:
  • Singular; cf. the plural, kānaka.
  • PPN tangata.

2. n., After end of the float of a canoe.

3. n., Clitoris.

4. (Cap.) nvs., Canada; Canadian.

• Source:
  • English.
• Related:
  • Also: Kanada.

Plural of kanaka #1.

• References:
  • PNP taangata.