Wehewehe Wikiwiki Hawaiian language dictionaries

1. vs., Straight, upright, direct, correct, right, O.K., accurate, all right; eyes front [military command].

• Examples:
  • Kū pololei, to stand straight, sheer, perpendicular, vertical.
  • E pololei ana ke kua, the back will be straightened.
• Also: pololoi.
• hoʻopololei Caus/sim.; To straighten, correct, reform; to aim, as a gun; to be partial and treat with favoritism.
  • Kula hoʻopololei keiki kāne, boys' reform school.

2. n., A land shell (Lamellaxis 🌐), frequently followed poetically by the epithet kani kua mauna, singing in the mountain ridges.

• Examples:
  • ʻO ka maiau pololei kani leʻaleʻa (PH 204), the land-shell neatness singing gaily.

3. n., Fresh poi.

• Source:
  • Kauaʻi.

4. n., An adder's-tongue fern (Ophioglossum concinnum), a small native fern with single narrow-oblong blade, which supports one narrow spore-bearing spike about 2.5 cm long.

kikino, Precision, as in math.

• Source:
  • Existing dictionary word, Extended meaning
• References:
  • See kaʻe pololei.

v. To be straight; to be correct, naturally or morally.

2. To make straight; to direct.

3. Hoo. To become straight; to make that straight which has become crooked naturally or morally.

4. To direct; to put in order.

s. Uprightness; rectitude of conduct; he pololei kona aoao.

2. A name given to new fresh food (poi.) See POLOKE.

adj. Straight; correct; accurate, in opposition to crooked, irregular or perverse.

adv. Straightly; uprightly; certainly.

Straight; correct; accurate, in opposition to crooked, irregular or perverse.

Straightly; uprightly; certainly.

1. Uprightness; rectitude of conduct: he pololei bona aoao.

2. Fresh poi, a Kauai term: miki pololei.

To be straight; to be correct, naturally or morally.

Fresh poi.

Song of the cricket or locust (families Gryllidae, Tettigoniidae). Kani kua a mauna, singing in the mountain ridges.

uprightness; straight.

uprightness: hungry.

1. Straight. In re Application of Territory to Register and Confirm Title at Kakaako, 30 Haw. 666, 669 (1928). 2. True; correct, accurate; direct.