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1. n., Box, drum, cask, chest, barrel, trunk, tank, case, ship binnacle, collection box, keg, ark, coffin, dresser, bureau, cabinet; bald heads were sometimes ridiculed as drums.

• Related:
  • Hula pahu (UL 103), dance to drum beat, perhaps formerly called ʻai haʻa.
• References:
  • Cf. hulipahu, pahu pāpale.
  • PPN pasu, PEP pahu.

2. n., Stake, staff, stick, post, pole.

• References:
  • Cf. pahu hope, pahu hopu, pahukū.

3. vt., To push, shove; to thrust or hurl, as a spear or javelin; to pierce with a sharp instrument, as in letting blood; to fall overboard (For. 5:123).

• Figuratively, to bruise the feeling of others.
• Related:
  • Waipahu (place name), pushing water, said to be named for water that forced its way out of the earth at Waipahu, Oʻahu, said to have been formerly called Waipahū (see pahū).
  • hoʻopahu Caus/sim.; To cause to push, etc.
• References:
  • PPN pasu.

4. vt., To cut off short; odd-numbered.

• Examples:
  • I pahu kō ʻoukou ʻaoʻao (For. 6:53), if your side is odd-numbered.
• References:
  • Cf. ʻāpahu, ʻoi #3, pahupū.

5. n., Trunkfishes, boxfishes, cowfishes (Ostracion 🌐).

• Related:
  • Malo says that pahu were taboo to women (Malo 29).
  • Also: moa.

6. n., Name of a region below the ʻilima and above the kula.

7. n., Gill net used in shallow water.

• References:
  • Malo 213, Emerson note.

kikino, Case.

• Source:
  • Existing dictionary word
• Examples:
  • Pahu koloaka. Case of soda.
  • Pahu pia. Case of beer.
• References:
  • Cf. ʻope.
  • See pūʻolo, ʻekeʻeke.

kikino, Base or plate, as on a baseball diamond.

• Source:
  • Mānaleo.
• Examples:
  • Pahu eo. Home plate.
  • Pahu ʻekahi. First base.
  • Pahu ʻelua. Second base.
  • Pahu ʻekolu. Third base.

kikino, Court, as for volleyball.

• Source:
  • Niʻihau.
• Related:
  • Also: kahua pōpaʻipaʻi.

hamani, To push.

• Source:
  • Existing dictionary word
• Related:
  • Also: pohu.

1. s., A barrel, cask, box, chest, &c. NOTE—A pahu was originally a hollow cocoanut or other tree with a shark skin drawn over one end and used for a drum: hence anything hollow and giving a sound when struck is a pahu.

2. A coffin. Kin. 50:26.

3. A hole dug as a landmark. See the compounds.

4. The name of a species of fish forbidden to women to eat under the kapu system.

1. v., To push or shove on end.

2. To push over; to push down. FIG. To overthrow, as an enemy. 2 Oihl. 18:10. To overpower; to tread down, as opposition. Hal. 44:5.

3. To burst forth; to run out, as a liquid; to gush or flow out.

4. To burst forth with a noise; to break suddenly; to burst, as a boil.

5. To dig holes for planting.

6. To fall down.

7. To strike or pound. See paopao.

8. To cut, as in bleeding.

9. To blunt; to cut off the end of a thing; to cut into.

10. To throw, as a spear.

11. To stuff food into a person's mouth.

1. s., Small kalo stinted with weeds.

2. The name of a fish.

3. The name of a species of fish net; he upena pahu.

adj., Round and smooth, as a bald head; applied to a kula, hula pahu.

1. v., To push; to drive forward.

2. v., To pierce with a pointed instrument.

3. v., To hurl the spear; to strike with a pushing force.

4. v., To cut in short pieces. Syn: Apahu.

1. v., To burst; to explode.

2. v., To fall suddenly with a thud.

1. n., A barrel, cask, box, chest, etc. (A pahu was originally a hollow coconut or other tree with a shark skin drawn over one end and used for a drum: hence anything hollow and giving a sound when struck is a pahu.)

2. n., A coffin.

3. n., Stake, stick or post set in the ground for a land mark.

1. n., Wild taro.

2. n., A particular kind of net used in fishing around coral reefs.

3. n., The catch taken in a pahu net.

1. adj., Round and smooth, as a bald head.

2. adj., Pertaining to the pahu or large drum. Hula pahu, a kind of dance.

Point.

• References:
  • See Lae-o-ka-pahu.

To hurl a spear.

Trunkfish (Ostracion meleagris). A very common species, growing to 9 inches. It lives in quiet waters along the shore line, and if disturbed it emits a poison from the skin. The fish is kapu to women. See moa.

Gill net for shrimp, ʻōpae.

Drum, as related to a hula dance.

To push over or down; to tramp down, as opposition; to hurl a spear; to burst forth with noise; to blunt.

Hollowed-out coconut tree trunk with a sharkskin fastened tightly over the upper end of a tympanum. See pūniu.

To throw or hurl, as a spear. Fig., to overthrow, as an enemy.

drum, barrel, box, chest, ark, coffin; stake in ground for mark: to push.

1. Stake or post set in ground as a landmark (T). 2. Area below the ʻilima region (SAM). 3. Box, trunk.