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ʻōlena

/ ʻō.lena / Haw to Eng, Pukui-Elbert (1986),

1. n., The turmeric (Curcuma domestica 🌐, also incorrectly called C. longa), a kind of ginger distributed from India into Polynesia, widely used as a spice and dye in foods, to color cloth and tapa, and medicinally for earache and lung trouble. A cluster of large leaves rises from thick, yellow underground stems, which are the useful part of the plant, either raw or cooked. (Neal 255–6.) PPN renga.

2. Same as lena, yellow.

3. n., Ash tree.

  • Source:
    • Hebrew oren.
  • Related:
    • Also: orena.

4. n., A small mountain tree on Kauaʻi (Coprosma waimeae), with yellow wood.

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olena

kikino ｜ noun / O-LE-NA / Haw to Eng, Andrews (1865),

s., See lena, yellow. Name of a plant; the turmeric, the root of which is used in dyeing yellow; it also forms an ingredient in curry; it resembles the awapuhi; also a yellow color, from the root.

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olena

kikino ｜ noun / o-lē'-na / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

1. [Lena, yellow.] Turmeric plant (Curcuma longa), whose root gave a yellow dye used in dyeing tapa yellow, hence its name; root also forms an ingredient of curry; it resembles the awapuhi.

2. n., A small tree (Coprosoma waimeae) peculiar to Kauai.

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ʻōlena

Haw to Eng, Kent (1986),

Turmeric (Curcuma domestica). See Plants: Uses. Dyes for kapa are derived from the steamed roots, a deep orange; and from the raw roots, a light yellow. (NEAL 256.)

ʻōlena

Haw to Eng, Kent (1986),

Turmeric (Curcuma domestica). (NEAL 255.) See Plants: Uses.

ōlena

Haw to Eng, Kent (1986),

Turmeric (Curcuma domestica). (NEAL 255.) See Plants: Uses.

ʻōlena

Haw to Eng, Kent (1986),

Turmeric (Curcuma domestica), a ginger found from India to Australia. In Hawaiʻi the ʻōlena, once found wild in damp forested valleys, is now rare. It had ceremonial value for it was used in purifying persons, places, and things. The steamed root was eaten as medicine by consumptives; the raw juice relieved earache and sinusitis and also supplied a yellow dye for kapa. (NEAL 255.)

ʻōlena

Haw to Eng, Kent (1986),

Fickle. (CMH.)

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