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vs., To tilt, rock, reel, sway, toss and pitch; wobbly, shaky, unsteady.

• Figuratively, insecure, hesitant.
• Examples:
  • Kulana o ka noho paipai, rocking of a rocking chair.
• Related:
  • hoʻokulana Caus/sim., to cause insecurity.

s., Ku and lana, to float. A place where many things are collected together, as a village, a garden; a meeting or collection of persons; e hele ana oukou i hea? E hele ana i o, i ke kulana pule, i.e., to a meeting which is held only once at a place or occasionally.

2. The sea in a calm immediately after a high wind, or the state of the sea when wind and current are opposite. See oloku. kulana nalu, a place in the sea where the surf rises high and thick, i.e., where the high surfs follow each other in quick succession.

3. A market place.

4. Name of new food from foreign countries; he mea ai hou no na aina e mai.

1. v. Ku and lana, to float. To pitch backwards or sideways, as one sitting in a chair and nodding.

2. To nod, as a person partially asleep; to bend the neck in nodding. See kakiwi. To reel, as a drunken man. See naue and kunou.

1. s., A place in a hulili or fortification where the men stand to throw their spears.

2. The sides of a house; na kulana o ka hale.

adj. Nodding; bending the neck; he poo kulana ka kela wahine. See KUNEWA.

adj., Nodding; bending the neck: he poo kulana ka kela wahine. See kunewa.

n., A bending or dropping forward.

[Ku, to stand, and lana, to float.]

1. n., A place where many things are collected together, as a village, a garden; a meeting or collection of persons: e hele ana oukou i hea? E hele ana i o, i ke kulana pule, that is, to a meeting which is held only once at a place or occasionally.

2. n., Reputation; station; rank; position; standing.

3. n., The quiet spot on the surface which follows the striking together of two seas. Also called kulananalu.

4. n., A place in a hulili or fortification where the men stand to throw their spears,

5. n., The location of a house: na kulana o ka hale.

6. n., Situation; relative position of any person or thing.

v., Same as kulanalana, to be unsettled.

reputation, station, rank.