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kāpaʻa

/ kā.paʻa / Haw to Eng, Pukui-Elbert (1986),

vt., To hold, as a canoe on its course.

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Kapaa (kă-pā'ā):

/ kă-pā'ā / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

fast, firm. Land section, Kohala, Hawaii.

Kapaʻa

/ Ka-paʻa / Wahi ｜ Location, Place Names of Hawaiʻi (1974),
  • Land section and beach park, Kohala qd., Hawaiʻi.
  • Land section, town, ditch, elementary school, weir, and beach park, Kawaihau district, Kauaʻi.
  • Land division, Kailua, Oʻahu, and a quarry there worked in the 1950s. (The area with the quarry may have been so named because of the solid rock there.) Ka laulā mauka o Kapaʻa ē, mai paʻa i ka leo (UL 40), the upland expanse of the closure, do not close your voice (an appeal for hospitality).

Literally, the solid or the closing.

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