nvi. Puffy clouds, as banked up near the horizon, often interpreted as omens; cumulus or billowy cloud, cloud bank; to form such clouds. See sayings, clouds, proud. ʻO Kona kai ʻōpua i ka laʻi, ʻōpua hīnano kau i ka mālie (chant), Kona with its cloud billows and sea in the calm, puffy clouds white like hīnano blossoms resting in the quiet. (PEP ka(a)pua.)
See naeʻōpuakau, waiʻōpua.
Ao ʻōpua. Cumulus cloud. Comb. ao + dic.
s. Narrow pointed clouds hanging in the horizon; clouds of a singular shape arising out of the sea; opua kea, opua eleele.
2. A bunch; a collection, as of bushes, leaves, &c.; he opua hao wale keia no ka aina; ke opua puakala. See OPU.
s. The name of a class of gods among the poe akua noho.
adj. Existing or hanging in bunches or clusters; ao opua, clouds collected; kahi e puka mai ai na ao opua mai ka moana.
Existing or hanging in bunches or clusters: ao opua, clouds collected; kahi e puka mai ai na ao opua mai ka moana.
Narrow pointed clouds hanging on the horizon; clouds of a singular shape arising out of the sea: opua kea, opua eleele.
A class of gods among the poe akua noho. See aumakua.
Street, Foster Village subdivision, Hālawa, Wai-pahu qd., Oʻahu. Name suggested by Mary Kawena Pukui in 1956. Lit., cloud bank.
Cumulus cloud; narrow-pointed clouds hanging on the horizon; clouds of a singular shape seeming to rise out of the sea. ʻO Kona kai ʻōpua i ka laʻi, ʻōpua h
Class of gods among the poʻe akua noho; cloud gods.
narrow pointed clouds.
E huli iā “ʻōpua” ma Ulukau.
Search for “ʻōpua” on Ulukau.