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1. nvi., To grow, increase, spread; growth; increase or rising of the wind; to protect (PH 116, For. 6:474).

• Examples:
  • Ka ulu o ka lā, the rising of the sun.
  • Kai ulu, sea at full tide.
  • Ulu ehuehu, to grow fast, as a child.
  • Mauka ʻoe e hele ai, ma ka ulu o ka makani (PH 213), go inland where the wind blows.
• Related:
  • Also: unu.
  • hoʻoulu Caus/sim.; To grow, sprout, propagate; to cause to increase, as the surf.
    • Cf. mea hoʻoulu, growth, crop.
    • Hoʻoulu mea kanu, horticulture.
    • Mea hoʻoulu pilikia, troublemaker, agitator.
    • Hoʻoulu lāhui, to increase and preserve the nation [said to be the aim of King Kalākaua].
    • Pule hoʻoulu ʻāina, prayer for the increased productivity of the land.
• References:
  • Cf. mea ulu.

2. vi., Possessed by a god; inspired by a spirit, god, ideal, person, as for artistic creation; stirred, excited; to enter in and inspire.

• Examples:
  • Manaʻo ulu wale, a thought entered of its own accord, hence fancy, impulse, imagination.
  • E ulu, e ulu kini o ke akua, ulu ō Kāne me Kanaloa (prayer), enter and inspire, may myriadsu of spirits enter and inspire, including Kāne and Kanaloa.
  • Ua ulu aʻe ia mamuli o ka mahele lua o ke koʻikoʻi, this occurred because of the division of the responsibility.
• Related:
  • Also: unu.
  • hoʻoulu, hoʻūlu Caus/sim.; To stir up, inspire, excite, taunt.
    • Pule hoʻoulu, prayer for inspiration.
    • Oli hoʻoulu, taunting chant, as before combat.
    • Ka hoʻoulu hakakā, stirring up fights.
    • Hoʻoulu haunaele, stirring up a mob, agitator.
• References:
  • PPN huru.

3. n., Grove (see ulu kanu, Ulukou, ulu kukui, ulu lāʻau, ulu niu); assemblage, collection, or flock, as of stars (ulu hōkū), birds (ulu manu), ships (ulu moku), canoes (ulu waʻa).

• References:
  • PPN ʻulu.

4. Same as the more common uluulu #3.

5. nvt., Stick used in spreading hot oven stones; to spread the stones.

6. n., Kind of tapa made at Waipiʻo, Hawaiʻi; name of a quilt design.

7. n., Center, as of a canoe or net.

• Examples:
  • Kīhele ia ulu, bail out the center.
• References:
  • Cf. uluna #3.

8. n., A name used repeatedly in For. 5:703–9 for Kawelo’s warriors whose names begin with Kaulu (Kaulukauloko, Kaulukauwaho).

• Examples:
  • Ua poʻe ulu nei (For. 5:709), these ulu people.
  • Ka nui ulu, the many warriors.

See uluna #1. (PPN ʻulu.)

1. n., The breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis 🌐), a tree perhaps originating in Malaysia and distributed through tropical Asia and Polynesia. It belongs to the fig family, and is grown for its edible fruits, sometimes for ornament. The leaves are large, oblong, more or less lobed; fruits are round or oblong, weighing up to 4.5 kilos, when cooked tasting something like sweet potatoes.

• Examples:
  • ʻUlu hua i ka hāpapa, breadfruit that bears fruit on the flats [of the famous Niʻihau breadfruit growing in the sand dunes].
• References:
  • Neal 302–4.
  • See ex., pakī, and saying ule #1.
  • PPN kulu.

2. n., Round, smooth stone as used in ʻulu maika game; bowling ball; bell clapper; dice.

• Examples:
  • Ka iki ʻulu kēia o Kanēkina e kōkē ai nā pine, a small [fellow] is this bowling ball of Kanēkina that knocks down the pins [boast of a small fellow who can do much].

3. n., Muscles in calf of leg.

4. n., Name for konāne stone.