Wehewehe Wikiwiki Hawaiian language dictionaries

1. n., Image, statue, picture, photograph, drawing, diagram, illustration, likeness, cartoon, idol, doll, petroglyph; features, as of a face; plans, as for a house; carved, as end of an ʻauamo pole.

• Examples:
  • Kona kiʻi, his picture, statue (of him).
  • Kāna kiʻi, a picture (or statue) by him or owned by him.
  • Pepa kiʻi, joker, in deck of cards.
  • Kiʻi maka nunui, prominent, wealthy, or important person, VIP; literally, big-eyed image.
  • Kiʻi maka liʻiliʻi, ordinary person; literally, small-eyed image.
  • ʻO ke kiʻi nō kēlā o ka makuahine, he's the image of his mother.
  • He ʻokoʻa kona kiʻi a me kona kūlana (FS 279), her features and appearance were different.
• References:
  • Cf. akua kāʻai, hula kiʻi, kaha kiʻi, kiʻi ʻōnohi, naʻanaʻa #1, paʻi kiʻi.
  • PCP tiki.

2. vt., To fetch, get, procure, send for, go after, summon, attack; to seek for sexual ends.

• Related:
  • hoʻokiʻi Caus/sim.; To send, have sent for; to take away.
• References:
  • See maka kiʻi.
  • Isa. 34.4.
  • PCP tiki.

3. vi., To try and, go and (idiomatic).

• Examples:
  • E kiʻi ā loaʻa ā loaʻa ʻole mai paha, go and get or perhaps don't get.
• References:
  • See ex., lolelole.

4. nvi., Hula step: one foot points to the side, front, and back; then the other foot does the same.

• Related:
  • Also: wāwae kiʻi, fetching step.

5. Same as ʻalani, orange.

6. n., Gesture, as in hula.

kikino, Figure, as an illustration in a textbook; graphics.

• Source:
  • Existing dictionary word, Extended meaning
• Examples:
  • Ua komolike ʻo kiʻi A a me kiʻi E. Figures A and E are congruent.
• Related:
  • Loulou kiʻi. To subscribe, as in a computer program.
  • Mea ʻenehana kiʻi. Graphics technician, as for movie or video production.
  • Pakuhi kiʻi. Pictogram, pictograph, as in a computer program.
• References:
  • See Pakuhi kiʻi.

hamani, To receive a serve, in volleyball; also first pass.

• Source:
  • Niʻihau.

Hula step where one foot points to the side, front, and back, then the other foot does the same. (PE.) Also called wāwae kiʻi.

Image of a god made of wood or stone. kiʻi ku, standing idol.

1. To gather items, McBryde Sugar Co. v. Robinson, 55 Haw. 260, 288, 290 (1973). 2. To fetch, get, procure, send for, go after, summon (PE). 3. To go after a thing; to send for a person or thing; to take from another (AP). 4. A picture (AP). 5. Map; diagram.