mumule
vs. Speechless, silent, taciturn, mute, sullen, sulky. Ua mumule loa au me ka leo ʻole (Hal. 39.2), I was dumb with silence. hoʻo.mumule Caus/sim.
MU-MU-LE
v. See MUMU. To be dumb; to be speechless.
2. To be silent; to hold one’s peace through grief or affliction. Hal. 39:2. Nolaila, noho mumule mai la oia ia mau la, therefore he lived in a taciturn manner during those days.
3. To be silent, as one confuted; not having anything to say. Neh. 5:8.
4. To be out of one’s right mind.
5. Hoo. To keep silence. Oih. 18:9.
MU-MU-LE
s. The gathering around a kapu; the assembling of a company together.
MU-MU-LE
adj. Silent; quiet; refusing to speak; taciturn; displeased; sullen; out of one’s mind; demented; pupule.
Mumule (mŭ-mū-le), adj.
Silent; quiet; refusing to speak; taciturn; displeased; sullen.
Mumule (mŭ'-mū'-le), n.
The gathering around a tabu; the assembling of a company together. Syn: Mumulu.
Mumule (mū'-mū'-le), v.
[Mumu, to be silent.]
1. To be dumb; to be speechless.
2. To be silent; to hold one's peace through grief or affliction; Nolaila, noho mumule mai la oia ia mau la, therefore he lived in a taciturn manner during those days.
3. To be silent, as one confuted; not having anything to say.
mumule
To sit silent is mumule, while babbling is namunamu, a word applied to the speaking of a foreign language not understood by the listener, as well as to rapid, indistinct articulation.
mumule
Silent gathering at a kapu ceremony. When people gather for a ceremony where a kapu is involved they must be mumule. Even animals had to be muzzled to insure silence was not broken.
mumule
Silent; to hold oneʻs peace through grief and affliction. (Hal. 39:2.)
mumule
silent; sullen; mute.
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