Wehewehe Wikiwiki Hawaiian language dictionaries

1. nvs., Soot, smudge; ink dregs; ink powder; ink used for tattooing made of burned kukui shells; tar-colored excrement as resulting from hemorrhage; sooty.

• Related:
  • hoʻopaʻu Caus/sim.; To soil, smudge, make sooty.

2. nvs., Drudgery, slaving; tedious and laborious work, toil; toilsome.

• Related:
  • hoʻopaʻu Caus/sim.; To treat as a drudge, overwork, oppress with tedious labor.

vs., Moist, damp, soaked, drenched, moldy.

• Related:
  • Also: maʻū.
  • hoʻopaʻū Caus/sim.; To soak, moisten, dampen.
• References:
  • See Paʻūpili.

1. nvt., Woman's skirt, sarong; skirt worn by women horseback riders; to wear a pāʻū. Figuratively, the sea (UL 36).

• Examples:
  • Pāʻū hula, any kind of dance skirt.
  • Pāʻū lāʻī, ti-leaf skirt.
  • Pāʻū-o-Luʻukia, ornamental sennit lashing of canoe float to outrigger boom, said to have been named for the chastity belt worn by Luʻukia (Malo 134, Emerson note.)
• Related:
  • hoʻopāʻū To put on a pāʻū.
• References:
  • Cf. pāʻū halakā.

2. n., Mat covering for a canoe, sometimes with crew sticking their heads out through holes in the mat.

• References:
  • Malo 135, Emerson note.

3. n., Red feathers bound to base of yellow feathers in an ʻuo, bunch.

1. vs., Finished, ended, through, terminated, completed, over, all done; final, finishing; entirely, completely, very much; after; all, to have all; to be completely possessed, consumed, destroyed.

• Examples:
  • Pau ka haʻawina, the lesson is finished.
  • Pau ke kaʻa i ka nāhāhā, the car was completely destroyed.
  • Pau ʻeka, very dirty, filthy.
  • Oki pau ka hana a ka huila, extremely wonderful is the doing of the wheel.
  • Pau nā luna i ka ʻeha, all the officers were injured.
  • Pau i ka lilo, all sold, gone, taken, consumed.
  • Ka pau ʻana ihola nō ia o kaʻu haʻawina, my lesson is just finished.
  • Pau Pele, pau manō, consumed by Pele, consumed by a shark [an oath meaning “may I be destroyed if I have not spoken truth”].
  • Pau poʻo, pau hiʻu, consumed head, consumed tail [total destruction].
• Related:
  • Used in loaʻa-type constructions, Gram. 4, as: E pau nō kēia hana iā kākou, we will finally finish this work; also an intensifier before verbs: see pau ʻeka, pau kilo, pau lehia, pau ʻono, pau pāʻele.
  • Pau or pau ā precedes some words with meaning of “very, very much.” Cf. pau maʻalea, pau ʻole, pau ʻono. Cf. also apau, kūʻike, pau a pau, pau loa, pau nui, -pau pilikia.
  • hoʻopau Caus/sim.;To put an end to, finish, get rid of, suppress, terminate, conclude, annul, stop, cancel, revoke, repeal, abolish, consume; to dismiss or discharge, as from work; to use too much, waste; cancellation, finishing; completely, all.
    • Cf. hoʻopau manawa.
    • Hoʻopau ʻana, abolition, cancellation, revocation.
    • Hoʻopau hoʻoʻino ʻia aku, dishonorably discharged [as from the armed services].
    • Hoʻopau ʻai, to waste food, said figuratively of one not worth his food.
    • Hoʻupau wale, nolle prosequi.
    • E hoʻopau ʻoe i kāu uwe ʻana, stop your crying.
    • E hoʻopau ʻia ā ma kēia ke hoʻopau loa ʻia nei ke kānāwai, the law shall be and hereby is revoked.
    • Ka hoʻopau ʻana o ka ʻaelike, cancellation of contract.
    • Ua hoʻopau ʻia kō Hauaʻīliki naʻau ʻeʻehia, ala aʻela ia ā halo wikiwiki akula (Laie 457), Hauaʻīliki's heart was completely filled with terror, he jumped and ran swiftly away.
• References:
  • PNP pau.

2. idiom. Said to be (used in special idioms, unfavorably).

• Examples:
  • Hele akula i kauhale e kamaʻilio ai, i laila pau koʻu hiamoe nui, ka hana ʻole, going to houses of others and chatting, there saying that Iʻm sleeping all the time, doing no work.
  • Pau kona lapuwale i nā hoahānau, said by his cousins to be worthless.