1. Short for puna.
2. Also pu. A simulative prefix to a great many roots with similar meanings, as ʻalu, pūalu; hano, puhano; haʻu, puhaʻu; hemo, puhemo; hene, pūhene; hili, pūhili; hole, puhole; koʻa, pūkoʻa; koko, pūkoko; lama, pūlama; lawa, pūlawa; lewa, pūlewa; liki, pūliki; mehana, pumehana.
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1. n., Large triton conch or helmet shell (Charonia tritonis 🌐) as used for trumpets; any wind instrument, as horn, trumpet, cornet. The instrument may be distinguished from other pū by the qualifier hoʻokani, sounding.
3. n., General name for pumpkin or squash.
4. n., Tree, cluster of several stalks, as of bananas, pandanus, or kava; clump, as of sugar cane (always precedes a noun).
5. n., Head of octopus or squid.
6. n., Canoe endpiece, both fore and aft.
7. nvt., Coil of hair, topknot of hair; rope or line, as attached to sticks in an ʻōpelu net; rope attached to the front of an unfinished canoe to haul it to the shore; olonā string used in the game pū kaula; snotter holding the end of the sprit of a sail; to coil; to gather in, as sails; to form a topknot.
8. vi., To divide by lot: pebbles or seeds were placed under a tapa, and divided unseen into heaps, and the players drew to get the largest heaps.
9. vi., To eat a little, share potluck, said in a humble invitation, as Mai kākou e pū ʻai, come and have a little food with us [take potluck].
10. n., A variety of sweet potato.
11. vs., Inactive, sluggish, quiet, dejected, bored (often following noho).
12. particle, Together, entirely, completely, also with, together with.
13. Probably a rare variant of puoho, startled.
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kikino, Horn, a musical instrument.
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hua hōʻailona, Abbreviation for pūkele (bushel).
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v. To come forth from; to come out of, as words out of the mouth; to draw out or move off, as a canoe from the place where it was dug out; alaila hele mai ke kahuna e pu ia ka waa.
2. To hold water in the mouth and try to talk; to mumble; to suck wind into the mouth.
3. To call; to call out; to proclaim; to call upon inanimate matter, as to call upon the mountains.
4. To cast lots; to choose by lot. See PUU. This was done usually by doubling the hand and one telling whether anything was in it or not.
5. Hoo. To sit with the knees bent up and the hands over them; to sit idly; to do nothing.
s. A shell; a horn; a trumpet; anything that would make a loud noise by blowing into it; na pu kiwi hipa ehiku, seven trumpets of rams’ horns. Ios. 6:4.
2. Anything that would make an explosive noise; a gun, pistol or firelock; na kanaka ame na pu kau poohiwi he nui loa, people and guns carried on the shoulders, a great many.
3. A musical instrument made by twisting a leaf; pu la’i. Laieik. 78.
4. A lot as in casting lots.
5. Name of the olona string used in playing at the game called pukaula; he wahi kaula olona i hili oioi, a he anana paha ka loa.
6. A gourd; a pumpkin; a squash; pu lima, the hand doubled up. See the verb, 4.
adj. With; together with; along with; in company; ku pu, to stand together; like pu, just alike.
1. Together with; along with; in company with; ku pu, to stand together; ua hele pu laua, they went together.
2. Just: like pu, just alike.
1. A conch; a shell; a horn; a trumpet; anything that would make a loud noise by blowing into it; na pu kiwi hipa ehiku, seven trumpets of rams' horns.
2. Anything that would make an explosive noise; a gun, pistol or firelock: na kanaka ame na pu kau poohiwi he nui loa, people and guns carried on the shoulders, a great many.
3. A musical instrument made by twisting a ti leaf: pu lai. Laieik. p. 78.
4. The upright projection fore and aft of a canoe.
5. The coil of hair on a woman's head.
6. Pumpkin; squash. Called also ipupu.
7. Same as puhee, head of the squid.
8. Cord used in the game of puhenehene.
1. To come forth from; to come out of, as words out of the mouth; to draw out or move off, as a canoe from the place where it was dug out: alaila hele mai ke kahuna e pu ia ka waa.
2. To blow or spray water from the mouth.
3. To play the game of pukaula.
Most of this variety used as palu (bait) in feeding and attracting ʻōpelu in their breeding places offshore. (HP 139.)
Variety of sweet potato. Its flesh is used as palu (bait) in feeding and attracting ʻōpelu in their breeding places. (NP 135.)
To sit with hands on knees; idle, indolent, lazy. (CMH.)
General name for pumpkin. See ipu pū. (NEAL 813.)
Any musical instrument that would make a large sound by blowing upon it; trumpet, conch shell, bugle. I na pū kiwi hipa ʻehiku, seven trumpets of ramsʻ horns. (Ios. 6:4.)
The old conch shell (pū), which in early missionary days hung at chapel doors to summon the neighborhood to worship, is seldom heard now.
To eat little and without relish.
End pieces, fore and aft.
shell, trumpet, horn; gun.
together with.
Together, entirely, together with, also.
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