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hā.nau

Haw to Eng, Pukui-Elbert (1986),

1. nvi. To give birth; to lay (an egg); born; offspring, child, childbirth; productive, fertile. Hānau ʻo Hina, Hina gave birth. Hānau ʻia ʻo Hina , Hina was born. ʻIliʻili hānau, reproducing pebbles. Welo hānau, productive or prolific family. He keiki hānau ʻē, premature baby. Lā hānau, birthday. Hānau ka moa i ka hua, the chicken lays an egg. hoʻo.hā.nau To act as midwife, deliver a baby; to reproduce. (PPN faanau.)

2. interj. Happy birthday (used in toasts).

3. Short for hoahānau, cousin. Rare.

hānau

Haw to Eng, Māmaka Kaiao,
  • Related:
    • Kaupalena hānau. Family planning, planned parenthood, population control. See paihānau, paikoho.
    • Kuleana hānau. Natural or inalienable rights, i.e. rights that people are born with and that a government should not attempt to deny.

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HA-NAU

Haw to Eng, Andrews (1865),

v. To come from or be separated, as a young animal from its mother; to be born.

2. More rarely used in an active sense to bear or bring forth, as a mother. Kin. 16:1. NOTE.—The translators of the Hawaiian Bible have used the word in the active sense for want of a better term, but Hawaiians seldom do; it mostly expresses the act of separation of the child from the mother; hence in a neuter or passive sense often, there was born to or for (such a one) so and so. Kin. 5:3, and throughout.

3. Hoo. To cause to be born, i. e., to beget, as a father.

4. To bring forth, as a mother. Nah. 11:12. Hanau ana, the being born, i. e., the birth. Mat. 1:18.

HA-NAU

Haw to Eng, Andrews (1865),

s. Child-birth.

hanau

/ HA-NAU / Haw to Eng, Andrews (1865),

adv. Hoo. Ka holoi hoohanau hou ana, the washing of regeneration. Tit. 3:5.

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Hanau (hā'-na'u), n.

/ hā'-na'u / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

Child-birth; the bringing forth of offspring. (Applied to animals and persons.)

Hanau (hā'-na'u), n.

/ hā'-na'u / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

Baptism.

Hanau (hā'-na'u), v.

/ hā'-na'u / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

1. To be born.

2. To give birth to; to bring forth children; more rarely used in an active sense to bear or bring forth, as a mother. (The translators of the Hawaiian Bible have used the word in the active sense for want of a better term, but Hawaiians seldom do; it mostly expresses the act of separation of the child from the mother; hence in a neuter or passive sense often, there was born to or for.)

hānau

Haw to Eng, Kent (1986),

Baby, child; to be born.

hanau

Haw to Eng, Judd/Pukui/Stokes (1943),

birth : to be born

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