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kapalulu

hehele ｜ intransitive verb / kapa.lulu / Haw to Eng, Pukui-Elbert (1986),

vi., Whirring, as of quail taking flight; buzzing; roaring, as of an airplane; crackling, as of a fire; to whiz.

  • Related:
    • Manu kapalulu, quail.
    • Holo kapalulu, to zoom.
    • hoʻokapalulu Caus/sim.; To crackle, roar, etc.

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KA-PA-LU-LU

Haw to Eng, Andrews (1865),

v. To move; to tremble; to shake; to make a tremulous or buzzing sound.

KA-PA-LU-LU

Haw to Eng, Andrews (1865),

s. A tremulous sound, as a fly buzzing in the ear.

Kapalulu (kă'-pă-lū'-lu), n.

/ kă'-pă-lū'-lu / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

A tremulous sound, as a fly buzzing near the ear.

Kapalulu (kă'-pă-lū'-lu), v.

/ kă'-pă-lū'-lu / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

1. To move about irregularly and quickly, as in effort to fly away or escape.

2. To flap the wings rapidly, as a bird in its endeavor to get out of the fowler's snare.

3. To move; to tremble; to shake.

4. To make a tremulous or buzzing sound.

kapalulu

Haw to Eng, Kent (1986),

California (Valley) quail (Lophortyx californicus), a vegetable eater. It was brought to the islands early and in the 1890s heavily populated Hawaiʻi and Molokaʻi. (CMH.)

kapalulu

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

to flap the wings, shake, quail.

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