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lāʻau

/ lā.ʻau / Haw to Eng, Pukui-Elbert (1986),

1. nvs., Tree, plant, wood, timber, forest, stick, pole, rod, splinter, thicket, club; blow or stroke of a club; strength, rigidness, hardness; male erection; to have formed mature wood, as of a seedling; wooden, woody; stiff, as wood.

  • Examples:
    • Ua hele ke kino ā lāʻau, the body is stiff in rigor mortis.
  • Related:
  • References:
    • PPN raʻakau.

2. nvs., Medicine, medical.

  • Related:
    • Hoʻohuihui lāʻau, paʻipaʻi lāʻau, chemistry.

3. nvi., Lump or knot in the flesh, as eased by the rubbing kahi massage; to feel such a knot or stiffness; cramp; Charley horse; to have a cramp.

4. n., Picture frame.

5. n., General name for canoe endpiece.

6. For nights of the moon beginning with Lāʻau see Lāʻau Kū Kahi, Lāʻau Kū Lua, Lāʻau Pau, and Malo 31, 35.

  • References:
    • PEP Laʻakau.

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lāʻau

Haw to Eng, Māmaka Kaiao,

kikino, Medicine, medicinal drug, medication; wood.

  • Source:
    • Existing dictionary word, Extended meaning
  • Related:
    • Inu i ka lāʻau. To take (liquid) medicine.
    • ʻAi i ka lāʻau. To take medicine.
    • Lāʻau kuhikuhi. Prescription drug or medication.
    • Lāʻau kūʻai wale. Over-the-counter drug or medication.
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LA-AU

Haw to Eng, Andrews (1865),

s. A general name for what grew out of the ground; o na mea e ulu ana ma ka honua ua kapaia he laau.

1. Wood; trees; timber; but not often fire-wood, which is wahie.

2. A forest; a thicket of trees; ka mea ulu ma na kuahiwi.

3. FIG. Strength; firmness; hardness.

4. Laau palupalu, herbs; tender vegetables. Mat. 13:32.

5. Medicine; that which is taken in case of sickness. NOTE.—The ancient Hawaiian medicines were numerous, and consisted mostly of mixtures of leaves of trees, barks, roots, &c., and some were exceedingly nauseous, and others very acrid; but the physicians depended more on their enchantments, their invocations to the gods, the sacrifices offered, or the prices paid, than on the virtue of their medicines.

Laau (lā'-ă'u), n.

Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

1. A general name for what grows out of the ground; o na mea e ulu ana ma ka honua ua kapaia he laau:

2. Wood; trees; timber (but not often firewood, which is wahie); a stick of wood.

3. A forest; a thicket of trees; ka mea ulu ma na kuahiwi.

4. Medicine; that which is taken in case of sickness. [The ancient Hawaiian medicines were numerous, and consisted mostly of mixtures of leaves of trees, barks, roots, etc. Some of the medicines were exceedingly nauseous; others very acrid; but the physicians depended more on their enchantments, their invocations to the gods, the sacrifices offered, or the prices paid, than on the virtue of their medicines.]

5. Strength; firmness; hardness.

6. A cramp.

Lāʻau

Wahi ｜ Location, Place Names of Hawaiʻi (1974),

Ridge, Hanalei district, Kauaʻi. See Honopū. Hill, Hāmākua, Hāwaiʻi. Point, southwest tip of Molokaʻi. Also called Ka-lae-o-ka-lāʻau. (UL 240.) Street, Ala Wai section, Honolulu. Lit., wood.

lāʻau

Haw to Eng, Kent (1986),

General term for end pieces.

lāʻau

Haw to Eng, Kent (1986),

Medicine.

lāʻau

Haw to Eng, Kent (1986),

Wooden club; blow with a club.

LAAU

Haw to Eng, Wehiwehi Baibala (1872),

I. Ma ka Baibala, o ka laau he hoailona ia o na na'lii a me na kanaka koikoi, Hal. 37:35; Is. 2:13; Dan. 4:10-26; Zek. 11:1, 2. O 'ka laau i ikea'i ka pono a me ka hewa,' he laau kapu ia; ma ka ai ana o Adamu o ia laau, ua ike oia i ka poino o ka hewa, Kin. 2:9, 17. O 'ka laau o ke ola,' he mea paha ia e ola'i ke kanaka, ke hana hewa ole o Adamu. E nana Hoik. 22:2.

la‘au

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

vegetative growth; wood; trees; medicine.

lāʻau

Haw to Eng, Land Terms (1995),

Wood, timber, tree, plant, forest, thicket (PE). Also, kumu lā ʻau, tree.

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