Wehewehe Wikiwiki Hawaiian language dictionaries

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.

• Related:
  • A pau. All, entirely.
  • Ka pau ʻana. Closing, as of a composition or story. See hoʻomaka, kino.

1. v., To all; to be all; to be entire or complete to whatever it refers.

2. To be spent; to be finished or completed.

3. To consume; to pass away. PASS. Pauia or pauhia.

4. Hoopau. To destroy; to consume; to put an end to. Nah. 14:35.

5. To make an end of; to finish, as an appointed work. Ios. 5:8.

6. To end; to terminate; to make up; to fill up, as time; to fulfill, as a specified time. Kin. 29:27.

1. s., A kind of poor kapa, not white nor black, nor any definite color. It takes ke for its article.

2. Ink for writing.

3. The black smut of a lampwick; he wahi eleele no ke kukui.

4. A vault; a stone house; lua pau.

adj., All; a pau loa, all; every one; everything.

adv., Entirely; wholly; completely. NOTE.—Use has rendered the meaning of this word like the French tout, as in tout le mond, all the world, everybody, when only a small part is intended.

s., The principal garment of a Hawaiian female in former times, consisting of a number of kapas, generally five, wound around the waist and reaching to the knee more or less.

v., To put or bind on a pa-u.

adv., Entirely; wholly; completely. (Use has rendered the meaning of this word like the French tout, as in tout le monde, all the world, everybody, when only a small part is intended.)

done finished Land section. Oahu.

v., To put or bind on a pa-u.

1. v., To be ended.

2. v., To be spent; to be finished or completed.

3. v., To be consumed; to be passed away.

n., The principal garment of a Hawaiian woman in former times, consisting of a number of tapas, generally five, wound around the waist and reaching to the knee.

n., Ink-powder; smut; soot.

n., A kind of tapa.

adj., All; every one; everything; all done; finished.

all; finished; entirely.

1. Cease. Keopohaku v. Kalaaukapu, 10 Haw. 511, 512 (1896). 2. To terminate, as in a lease. Brown v. Walker, 24 Haw. 285, 289-290 (1918).