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nvs., Parent, any relative of the parents' generation, as uncle, aunt, cousin; progenitor; Catholic father; main stalk of a plant; adult; full-grown, mature, older, senior. Figuratively, benefactor, provider, anyone who cares for one; the Lord (God).

• Examples:
  • Kamika Makua, Smith Senior.
  • Ē ka Makua (Ka Nonanona, beginning of a letter, Sept. 5, 1843), Sire.
  • Makua Laiana, Father Lyons [the Hawaiians' name for the Rev. Lorenzo Lyons, 1807–1886].
  • ʻO kō mākou Makua i loko o ka lani, our Father who art in heaven.
  • ʻO koʻu makua aku ana kēia, this one will be the one who cares for me in the future [may be said by a parent of his child].
• Related:
  • hoʻomakua Caus/sim.; To grow into maturity, mature; to act the part of a parent; to foster, adopt, as a child; to call or treat as a parent; to address as parent, aunt, or uncle one related by affection rather than by blood or adoption; to become established or permanent.
    • Ua hoʻomakua aku au nona, I became his parent or guardian.
    • ʻAʻole hoʻi e hoʻomakua aku ʻoukou i kekahi kanaka (Mat. 23.9), and call no man your father.
    • ʻO kou ahonui ka i hoʻomakua mai nei iaʻu (Hal. 18.35), your gentleness has made me great.
• References:
  • PPN matuʻa .

1. Plural of makua.

• References:
  • Gram. 8.1.
  • PNP maatuʻa .

2. Same as kūnehi, sunfish.

Variant of mākuʻe, dark brown, dark red.