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ponopono

/ pono.pono / Haw to Eng, Pukui-Elbert (1986),

1. vs., Neat, tidy, in order, arranged, cared for, attended to, administered.

  • Related:
    • hoʻoponopono Caus/sim.
      • a. To put to rights; to put in order or shape, correct, revise, adjust, amend, regulate, arrange, rectify, tidy up, make orderly or neat, administer, superintend, supervise, manage, edit, work carefully and neatly; to make ready, as canoemen preparing to catch a wave (For. 5:127). Cf. luna hoʻoponopono, mea hoʻoponopono. Hoʻoponopono ʻole, slovenly untidy, disorderly, careless, thoughtless, uninhibited, blunt, reckless. Hoʻoponopono hou, to revise, reorganize, re-edit. Noho hoʻoponopono ʻole, sitting in a careless or indecent way. Kāna hoʻoponopono ʻana i ka ʻāina (Laie 495), his apportioning of the land [on becoming chief]. Ka hoʻoponopono waiwai ʻana (For. 5:129), the financial arrangements, adjustments. Hoʻoponopono waiwai, administrator or executor of an estate; to administer an estate. Hale hoʻoponopono, administration building. Ka hoʻoponopono ʻana, regulation. Kānāwai hoʻoponopono ʻia, revised law.
      • b. Mental cleansing: family conferences in which relationships were set right (hoʻoponopono) through prayer, discussion, confession, repentance, and mutual restitution and forgiveness (Na_na_ 60).

2. Reduplication of pono #1.

3. vs., Comfortably well off, wealthy.

  • Examples:
    • Ponopono ka nohona, comfortably well-to-do.

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PO-NO-PO-NO

Haw to Eng, Andrews (1865),

v. See PONO, v. and s. Hoo. To put in order; to make right; to prepare; to reform, as a wicked person; to amend; to correct, as something erroneous.

2. To judge; to settle a controversy. Kin. 49:16.

PO-NO-PO-NO

Haw to Eng, Andrews (1865),

s. Hoo. Judgment; a declaration of what is right.

2. The practice of what is right.

3. That which is right in itself. Ier. 22:3.

PO-NO-PO-NO

Haw to Eng, Andrews (1865),

adj. Just; upright; correct.

Ponopono (pō'-nŏ-pō'-no), adj.

Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

1. Just; upright, correct.

2. Well off; comfortably wealthy. Syn: Lake

Ponopono (pō'-nō-pō'-no), n.

Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

[Pono, that which is right.]

1. Judgment; a declaration of what is right; the practice of what is right.

2. That which is right in itself.

Ponopono (pō'-nŏ-pō'-no), v.

Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

[Pono, rightness.] To be right. The transitive form is hooponopono, to set right; to set in order; to correct.

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