Puna
puna
1. n., Spring (of water).
- References:
- Cf. pūnāwai.
- PPN puna.
2. n., Coral, lime, plaster, mortar, whitewash, calcium; coral container, as for dye, coral rubber.
- Examples:
- E lawe ʻoia i ka puna hou e hamo i ka hale (Oihk. 14.42), and he shall take new plaster and plaster the house.
- References:
- PPN punga.
3. n., Section between joints or nodes, as of bamboo or sugar cane.
4. n., Cuttlebone, as of octopus.
5. Short for kupuna as a term of address.
6. Short for punalua.
7. vi., To paddle with the hands, as to start a surfboard on its way to catch a wave.
8. n., Spoon (preceded by ke).
- Examples:
- Ke iho ihola ke puna, the spoon is let down [the lower lip, of a pouter].
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puna
kikino Cast, as for a broken arm. Dic., ext. mng. Also kimeki iwi. See palaina puna.
PU-NA
v. Hoo. To collect or unite with one’s self, as two or more wives, friends, favorites, &c. Haa. or hoo. O kakou no ka lakou poe i haapuna ai i ka la o ka makalii, ame ka ua o ka hooilo.
PU-NA
s. The stone coral; lime unburnt; mortar. Oihk. 14:42. He pohaku keokeo no ka moana.
2. Name of a district on Hawaii.
3. A well; a spring; a cavern; a pit; punawai, a spring.
4. A joint of sugar-cane or bamboo; also written pona.
5. Eng. A spoon.
6. The name of a foreign surf-board; he kioe kahiki.
PU-NA
adj. Of or belonging to a spring. See WAIPUNA and MAPUNA.
Puna (pū'-na), n.
/ pū'-na /1. The stone coral (Pontes): unburn! lime; mortar.
2. Name of a district on the island of Hawaii.
3. A place where water percolates through rock or clay; a spring.
4. That part of the stem of a plant between the joints; said of the spaces between the joints of sugar-cane. bamboo and all reed plants. Syn: Pona.
5. The motion of the hand in starting a surf-board on. us run from the crest of a wave. Syn: Kioe.
6. [ Mod.] A spoon.
Puna (pu'-nă):
/ pu'-nă /coral, lime. District, Hawaii.
Puna (pū'-na), v.
/ pū'-na /Contraction of punalua.
Puna (pū'-na) adj.
/ pū'-na /Of or belonging to a spring.
Puna
- Quadrangle and district, southeast Hawaiʻi; land section and sugar mill, Kalapana qd.; forest reserves, Kalapana and Puna qds.; road, Hilo qd., Hawaiʻi.
- The Kawaihau district, Kauaʻi, was sometimes called Puna.
- Street, Kamehameha Heights, Honolulu, Oʻahu.
Poetic (Hawaiʻi): paia ʻala i ka hala, bowers fragrant with pandanus; ka āina i ka houpo o Kāne (PH 218), the land in the heart of Kāne.
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puna
Name of an introduced surfboard, he kioʻe kahiki.
Puna
Puna whose sea rustles in the hala grove. The hala (pandanus) grows near the sea.
Puna
Puna, land of hala (pandanus) groves.
puna
Unburned lime; mortar, coral, stone. (Oihk. 14:42.)
puna
stone coral; lime, mortar; a spring; spoon; joint of cane or bamboo.
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