n.
1. General term for Hawaiian flying fishes (Parexocoetus brachypterus and others). This name may be qualified by the terms ʻēheu lā, ʻēheu ʻula, and hāpuʻu. Fig., fickle person who leaps from mate to mate. Cf. puhikiʻi, wauke mālolo. (PPN maalolo.)
2. See kaunaʻoa mālolo.
3. An ancient type of tapa (no data).
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1. nvi., To rest, pause, adjourn; adjournment, pause.
2. vs., Low, of a tide.
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ʻAu mālolo. Butterfly stroke, in swimming; to swim the butterfly stroke. Lit., swim (like) mālolo fish.
v. To break off work at the arrival of a la kapu; to rest. Hoo. To rest; to be still; to desist from work or labor on account of kapu.
2. To ebb and flow, as the ocean, much more than usual; o Nana no ka malama e malolo ai ka moana.
s. A day of preparation before a la kapu. Hoo. Causing a malolo or resting day. NOTE.—At the present time it is equivalent to Saturday; ka la Hoomalolo, the day before the Sabbath.
s. The flying-fish that swims near or on the surface of the sea; ma ka ili kai e holo ai ka malolo.
adj. Ebbing much further than usual, as the sea, and when this occurs, it is followed by a very high tide called ke kaimalolo.
The flying fish. (Evolantia microptera.) A very popular food fish.
1. v., To break off work at the arrival of a tabu period; to rest.
2. v., To ebb and flow, as the ocean, much more than usual; o Nana no ka malama e malolo ai ka moana. (Used generally with the prefix hoo.) See hoomalolo.
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1. A day of preparation before a la kapu.
2. In later times, equivalent to Saturday; ka la hoomalolo, the day before the Sabbath.
Ebbing much farther than usual, as the sea. When this occurs, it is followed by a very high tide called ke kaimalolo.
General term for all flying fish (Cypselurus spp., family Exocoetidae).
Day of preparation before a lā kapu; to quit work at the beginning of a kapu.
To ebb and flow, as the ocean, much more than usual. (A.) Low as applied to a tide. (PE.)
Cane earlier known as puahala, said to be a tough cane. Used by bird catchers as an offering upon snaring their first bird. Kamakea: It was named after the fish mālolo (Evolantia microptera), the flying fish.
ebbing of spring tides; day of preparation before sacred day.
flying fish.
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