pakapaka
/ paka.paka /1. Reduplication of paka #3.
- Examples:
- Pakapaka ka iʻa a Paulo, Paul has a great lot of fish.
3. Same as ʻōpakapaka #2, ʻōpakapaka #3; wrinkled; scaly.
- References:
- Cf. pakalua.
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1. Reduplication of paka #3.
3. Same as ʻōpakapaka #2, ʻōpakapaka #3; wrinkled; scaly.
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v. See PAKA. To drop, as large rain drops; to make the noise that such drops make on dry substances; to patter.
s. A heavy shower of rain.
2. The wrinkled skin of the eye.
3. An aged person, from his wrinkles.
4. Weakness; feebleness, as of an aged person.
adj. Coarse or large, as the lauhala leaves with which a mat is braided; he moena pakapaka.
2. Numerous, as men.
3. Large and many, as fish, &c., in one's possession; pakapaka kanaka o mea; pakapaka ka ia ia mea ma.
1. Coarse or large, as the lauhala leaves of which a mat is braided: he moena pakapaka.
2. Numerous, as men, said of rain drops.
3. Numerous; many, as fish, etc., in one's possession; pakapaka kanaka o mea; pakapaka ka ia a mea ma.
1. A heavy shower of rain.
2. The wrinkled skin of the eye.
3. An aged person, from his wrinkles.
4. Wrinkles.
[Paka, to drop.] To drop, as large rain drops; to make the noise that such drops make on dry substances; to patter.
Heavy rain shower; patter of heavy drops, as on dry surfaces.
Large, coarse mats plaited from large hala leaves.
Wrinkles; wrinkled skin of the eye.
To sail along; to divide the water, as the keel of a ship; to move sideways. (A.)
Heavy shower of large rain drops; spattering noise that such drops make on a hollow or dry substance, as on dry leaves.
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