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kualana

/ kua.lana / Haw to Eng, Pukui-Elbert (1986),

1. vi., Lazy, indolent, bored, fatigued; roving about without a chief to support one, as a “floater” (lana); to wander.

  • Examples:
    • Lilo ʻoukou i ka ʻōlelo haole ā kualana mākou, since you have all turned to speaking English, weʻre bored.
    • Kualana ka ʻōpū, very hungry.
  • hoʻokualana Caus/sim.; to fail in strength.
  • References:
    • For. 6:428.

2. vi., To float on the back; buoyant.

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kualana

/ KU-A-LA-NA / Haw to Eng, Andrews (1865),

v., To be idle; to be indifferent to all business; to wander about without object; to sit uninterested with nothing to engage attention, as one who does not understand the conversation; lilo oukou i ka olelo haloe a kualana makou; to sit idle, as one lazy (molowa) on a canoe instead of paddling.

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kualana

/ KU-A-LA-NA / Haw to Eng, Andrews (1865),

1. s., Indolence; laziness; fatigue; nui ka poe kualana e noho aina ole ana; o ke kanaka hoopili wale he kualana ia, he who joins himself to another without work is a lazy fellow.

2. A man who roves about without a chief or haku or any support or any one to depend on.

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kualana

ʻaʻanostative verb / KU-A-LA-NA / Haw to Eng, Andrews (1865),

1. adj., Lazy; not disposed to work; o ka noho a ka ohua kualana.

2. Fatigued, as a man by padding a canoe and lays down his paddle.

3. Not sinking; floating; komo ole, lana.

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kualana

ʻaʻanostative verb / kū'-ă-lā'-na / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

1. adj., Lazy; not disposed to work: o ka noho o ka ohua kualana.

2. adj., Deserted; abandoned; given up, as when a rower lays down his paddle from fatigue.

3. adj., Not sinking; floating; korao ole, lana.

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kualana

kikinonoun / kū'-ă-lā'-na / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

1. n., Indolence; laziness.

2. n., A lazy fellow: nui ka poe kualana e noho aina ole ana; o ke kanaka hoopili wale he kualana ia; he who joins himself to another without work is a lazy fellow, a kualana.

3. n., A man who roves about without a chief or haku, or any support, or any one to depend on.

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kualana

/ kū'-ă-lā'-na / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

[Kua, the back, and lana, floating.]

1. v., To be idle; to be indifferent to all business; to wander about without object.

2. v., To be uninterested, as one who does not understand; to be without comprehension or perception: Lilo oukou i ka olelo haole, a kualana makou.

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