- land
- 1. Ground. 'Āina, honua; one (poetic); puluwai (rare). See legendary place.♦ Native land, 'āina hānau, kulāiwi, one hānau.♦ Land one has lived on for a long time, 'āpa'a.♦ Once uncultivated land, fallow land, mahakea.♦ Foreign land, 'āina haole, kahiki.♦ Land rights, konohiki.♦ Fee simple land, 'āina kū'ai, 'alolio, alodio.♦ Land anciently exempt from rent and taxes, 'āina kūpono.♦ Land inheritance, ili 'āina.♦ Land grant, hā'awi 'āina.♦ Crown lands, 'āina lei ali'i.♦ Land boundary, palena 'āina.♦ To establish or to act as land, ho'ohonua.♦ Place where land and sea meet, 'ae kai.♦ Altar marking land division, ahupua'a, ka'ānani'au.♦ Ancient land units, in approximate order of size: moku, kalana, ahupua'a, 'ili, 'ili pa'a, 'ili kūpono, 'ili lele, lele, mo'o, mo'o 'āina, paukū, kīhāpai, kō'ele, kuleana; also: 'okana, 'āpana, ahunāli'i, hakuone, kuakua, nana'e. Land areas, wao (see Haw.-Eng. entries and entries that follow it), 'ilima, kalulu, kualono, kula, palahe'ī, poko.2. Debark. Pae, lele, hō'ili, ho'oili.
English-Hawaiian dictionary. 2015.