Hawaiian Nouns

Animals

• a'ama = crab

• alala = Hawaiian crow

• 'ekake = donkey

• he'e = octopus, squid

• hipa = sheep, goat

• holoholona = animal

• honu ea = sea turtle

• 'i'a = fish

• i'iwi = honey creeper (bird)

• 'ilio = dog

• 'ilio ha'e = wolf

• 'io = hawk

• 'iolani = heavenly hawk

• kaholo = whale

• kaka = duck

• kamaloli = snail

• kiha, kihalani = dragon

• kila = monk seal

• kolili = gorilla

• lio = horse

• liona = lion

• mana = dove

• mano = shark

• moa = chicken

• mo'o = lizard

• nai'a = dolphin

• ope'ape'a = bat

• 'opae = shrimp

• palomiko = flamingo

• pikake = peacock

• pipi = cow

• pipi kauo = bull

• pololio = jellyfish

• popoke = cat

• pua'a, pu'a = pig

• pueo = owl

• ula = lobster

• wanawana = sea urchin

Body

• kino = body

• kua = backbone

• niho = tooth

Drinks

• hale pila = bar

• hau = ice

• kini = cup, container

• kope = coffee

• pila = beer

• wai = water

• waihua'ai = juice

• waina = wine

Food

• 'āina ahiahi = dinner

• hale 'āina = restaurant

• kō = sugar

• kuki = cookie

• laiki = rice

• mea'ai = food

• mea'ono = cake

• 'oma = oven

• pa'akai = salt

• paipika = pizza

• palaoa = bread

• pohu = sprout

General

• ahi'ahi = evening

• 'āina = land

• auinola = afternoon

• awakea = noon

• hale = house

• hau'oli = pleasure

• helu = number

• hoku = star

• ka'a = car

• ka'a ohua = bus

• kahakai = beach

• kahiaka = morning

• kai = sea, sea water

• kala = money

• kelepona = phone

• kiaha = drinking glass

• kini 'ōpala = trash can

• kumu = teacher

• kumulā'au = tree

• lā = sun, day

• lau hala = pandanus leaf

• lewa = sky

• lua = toilet

• lumi kuke = kitchen

• make = death

• makini pa'iki'i = camera

• mana'o'i'o = faith

• mikini wikiō = VCR

• moena = mat

• nalu = wave

• nūpepa = newspaper

• okole = bottom

• ola = life

• ōlelo = language

• olonā = vine, rope

• 'ona = sand

• 'omawawe = microwave (oven)

• pa = table

• pahu = box

• paia = wall

• palale = hat

• papa = class

• papahele = floor

• pauka = powder

• pe'ahi uila = electric fan

• piāpā = alphabet

• po = night

• pohaku = stone

• pu = conch shell

• pua = flower, child

• pulele = shirt

• pu'u = hill

• ua = rain

• uaki hoala = alarm clock

• waiho'olu'u = color

Holidays

• Hau'oli Makahiki Hou = Happy New Year (happy makahiki again)

• Helui = Halloween

• Kalikimaka = Christmas

Persons

• haumana = student

• Ioāne = John

• kama = child

• keiki = child

• Pake = Chinese

• pua = child, flower

Places

• aia = there

• Betelehema = Bethlehem

• eia = here

• hale 'āina = restaurant

• hale pila = bar

• Kaleponi = California

• Kelemania = Germany

Plants

• 'awa = kava

• hau = soft wood yellow flowered tree of the hibiscus family

• kalo = taro

• kauila = a very hard wood

• ki = ti

• ko = sugarcane

• kōki'o ke'oke'o = white hibiscus

• mai'a = banana

• naupaka = coastal or highland half flower shrub

• niu = coconut

• noni = Indian mulberry

• ohai = orange flowered bush

• ohi'a'ai = mountain apple

• 'ōlena

• palapalai = fern used for hula decoration

• pia = arrowroot

• 'uala = sweet potato

• wauke= paper mulberry

Pronouns

• 'Au = I

• he aha = what

• ia = it

• kākou = three or more, inclusive

• kāua = two people, inclusive

• lākou = they three or more

• laua = they two

• makou = three or more, exclusive

• māua = two people, exclusive

• 'oe = you

• 'oia = he, she, it

• 'ōlua = you two

• 'oukou = you three or more

Possessive Summary Table

Lono

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• Hawaii

• Places

• Personal

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