Wehewehe Wikiwiki Hawaiian language dictionaries

Moa; moa hiwa, moa ʻalae (black); moa lawa, moa uakea (white); moa ʻula hiwa (black with red at neck and rump); moa nēnē (speckled); moa pua hau (yellow); piopio (at about the fryer stage).

• Examples:
  • The chicken is a chief, the chicken sits on top of the house, he liʻi ka moa, kau ana ka moa i luna o ka hale (FS 101).
• Related:
  • Chicken house, hale moa.
  • Little chicken, moa keiki, ʻioʻio moa, kīnana.
  • Little chicks, bristling down (FS 81), moa keiki, kukū ka heuheu (fear of a great warrior).
  • Scatter everywhere peeping chicks in the forest, chilled and fleeing (FS 81), ʻauheʻe liʻiliʻi, ʻioʻio moa o ka nahele, i ka lī a ke ʻauheʻe nui (defeat in war).