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Hala (for various kinds, see Haw.-Eng. entry and entries that follow it).

• Examples:
  • Puna, where sea blasts amid pandanus (PH 2), ʻo Puna kai kuwā i ka hala.
• Related:
  • Pandanus tree, pū hala.
  • Pandanus trunk, kumu hala.
  • Male pandanus tree, hala hīnano, hala hīnalo.
  • Female pandanus tree, hala hua.
  • Pandanus leaf, lau hala; koʻo, ʻiʻokoʻo, muʻo hala, pūʻawa, pūkani; pililāʻele (young); lāʻele (old); pala lau hala, paʻilauʻula (dry).
  • Bundle of forty leaves, kī.
  • Male blossom, bracts, hīnano, polohīnano.
  • Pandanus fruit, ʻāhui hala; polopoloua (unripe); polokā (ripe); kāʻao, kāō (very ripe).
  • Pandanus fruit stem, polopeʻa.
  • Pandanus key, hala; pani (at bottom of cluster); hala ʻiʻo (ripe); hala iwi nui (upper hard portion); pua hala (yellow base).
  • Nut in key, hala hua, ʻiʻo hala.
  • Pandanus fruit core, ʻīkoi.
  • Pandanus root tip, muʻo hala.
  • Pandanus aerial root, ule hala, uleule hala.
  • Lumps of pandanus trunk, puʻupuʻu hala.
  • Width of pandanus plaiting strip, koana.
  • Pandanus lei, lei hala (not worn by some because of double meaning; see hala #1, hala #2).
• References:
  • See sayings, hala iwi nui, pala lau hala.

ha'lă; (tree), pūhă'lă; (leaf), lăŭha'lă.