Wehewehe Wikiwiki Hawaiian language dictionaries

1. nvs., Section, link, piece; stanza, verse, as in the Bible; canto; article, as of law; paragraph; to section off, cut in sections, slice in sections; to make a lei with sections of different colors, as feathers, or roses and begonias; land section smaller than a moʻo (Thrum's Annual, 1925, p. 68); a unit of measurement; a squad (military; see mokuna); jointed, linked.

• Examples:
  • E paukū ana nō ka hala me ka lehua (PH 27), pandanus and lehua sections being made into a lei.

2. n., Root of the kāʻeʻe vine, used medicinally.

3. Same as ʻōpū ʻōhao, a disease.

kikino, Paragraph.

• Source:
  • Existing dictionary word
• References:
  • See paukū kālele and paukūkū.

kikino, Term, in math.

• Source:
  • Existing dictionary word, Extended meaning
• Related:
  • Hoʻonui paukū pākahi. To multiply through.
• References:
  • See hoa like, hua paʻa.