pā.lani
vi. To skim lightly; to paint or daub lightly, especially to paint tapa in light shades. Cf. mālani.
palani
1. n. A surgeonfish (Acanthurus dussumieri), famous for a strong odor. (PPN palangi.)
2. nvi. To stink, smell sour or rancid; a detested person; a kauā, outcast. hoʻo.palani To cause to go sour, rancid.
3. n. A variety of sugar cane, short, purple with deep olive-green cast when young, changing to reddish-yellow on exposure, pith dark. Probably the parent of ʻakoki. Sometimes qualified by hao or ʻula (For. 5:585).
4. n. A variety of sweet potato
5. Also barani n. Brandy. Eng. ʻUla palani, brandy red.
6. (Cap.) Also Farani nvs. France; Frenchman; French; Frank. Eng. Hula Palani (UL 203), same as the paʻi umauma hula.
7. n. Bran. Eng.
Palani
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PA-LA-NI
v. To skim; to dip lightly, as an oar; applied to rowing feebly; aole komo ka hoe, dip not deeply the paddle.
2. To dig slightly, not deeply.
PA-LA-NI
adv. Lightly; feebly; kioe palani, skim a little.
PA-LA-NI
adj. Sour, as a melon or other fruit partly eaten, the remainder left and it becomes sour.
PA-LA-NI
v. To stink; a word of contempt, applied to dirty, filthy persons, from the fact that the fish palani stinks abominably. Palani was formerly applied to servants in distinction from chiefs; ua kapaia ka poe kauwa he palani, he hohono ke ano.
PA-LA-NI
s. The name of a fish emitting a very bad odor.
PA-LA-NI
s. Eng. The Hawaiian orthography for barani, that is, brandy; it should always be written and printed barani.
PA-LA-NI
s. Eng. France, French or a Frenchman; this word should always be written and printed Farani or Ferani, France; he kanaka Farani, a Frenchman.
PA-LA-NI
s. A species of sugar-cane.
PA-LA-NI
v. To soften. Hoo. To paint; to daub.
palani
/ pă-lă'-ni /1. n., A surgeon fish emitting a rank odor; a flat fish of the enenue class, not a favorite food.
2. n., A species of purple sugar-cane.
3. [Eng.] n., Brandy
4. [Eng.] n., France, French or a Frenchman.
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Palani (pă-lă'-ni), v.
1. To stink; a word of contempt, applied to dirty, filthy persons, from the fact that the fish palani has a rank odor.
2. To daub; to brush over lightly; to smear.
Palani (pā'-lā'-ni), v.
1. To skim; to dip lightly, as an oar; applied to rowing lightly; aole komo ka hoe, dip not deeply the paddle.
2. To dig slightly, not deeply.
Palani (pă-lă'-ni), n.
[See the verb palani.] A servant. (Formerly applied to servants in distinction from chiefs; now obsolete.) Ua kapaia ka poe kauwa he palani, he hohono ke ano.
Palani (pā'-lā'-ni), adv.
Lightly; feebly: kioe palani, skim a little.
Palani (pă-lă'-ni), adj.
Sour, as the remainder of a melon or other partly eaten fruit becomes.
Palani
Avenue, Ala-wai section, Honolulu, named by Frank L. James, who developed the area in 1926 for his son, Francis Peter James. Lit., Frank.
palani
Surgeonfish (Acanthurus dussumieri). The body of this fish is pale yellowish-brown with fine blue longitudinal lines and a yellow band through the eye. It lives in deeper waters outside the reef, growing to 18 inches. It is one of the most important species caught by trap fishermen. Its skin and flesh have a strong odor.
pālani
To paint lightly, as kapa with light shades.
palani
Sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum). Palani is a purple variety, growing more in the higher and exposed highlands. This was the sugarcane of the early Hawaiians. There are at least forty Hawaiian words for varieties of sugarcane. One is hoʻopaʻapaʻa (quarreling) because two men quarreled about naming it. Another is manu lele, (flying bird) involving the return of a wifeʻs love for her husband. (NEAL 77-79.) See Plants: Uses.
palani
Sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum). Aside from raw sugar, which brought the agricultural list its top competitor, sugarcane has many by-products: molasses, alcohol, bagasse, canec, plastics, and fertilizer. In addition, cane tops can be used as cat tle feed, flower heads for home decoration, and leaves for house thatching. Today, sugarcane is munched like candy. (NEAL 77.)
palani
Word of contempt applied to persons seeming dirty and filthy, probably from the fish palani that stinks abominably.
palani
To stink, a word applied to servants in distinction from chiefs.
palani
Cane with deep, olive-green cast changing to reddish-yellow on exposure to the sun. Leaves and sheath are green. Probably the parent of the Molokaʻi ʻakoki and not its mutant. Named after the surgeonfish (Hepatus dussumieri) because of its markings.
palani
brandy; France; French.
Palani
1. French. 2. France, (HRH).
Palani
1. French. 2. France, (HRH).
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