Hawaiian word senses marked with lifeform category "Fish"
Parent categories: Vertebrates, Chordates, Animals, Lifeforms, Life, Nature
Subcategories: Acanthuroid fish, Beloniform fish, Cyprinids, Elopomorph fish, Gadiforms, Labroid fish, Otocephalan fish, Percoid fish, Rays and skates, Scombroids, Sharks, Tetraodontiforms
Total 32 word senses
- aku (Noun) bonito, skipjack tuna (Katsuwonus pelamis)
- awa (Noun) channel, passage
- aʻu (Pronoun) mine, my First person singular possessive, a-type.
- aʻu kū (Noun) swordfish
- hailepo (Noun) stingray
- humuhumu (Noun) triggerfish
- humuhumunukunukuāpuaʻa (Noun) reef triggerfish, humuhumunukunukuapuaa
- iʻa (Noun) fish (vertebrate animal)
- iʻa ʻulaʻula (Noun) goldfish
- kala (Noun) horn, spike, thorn
- kuna (Noun) a variety of freshwater eel
- manini (Noun) Acanthurus triostegus, a species of surgeonfish
- manō (Noun) shark
- mao (Noun) a type of fish
- ono (Noun) wahoo (Acanthocybium solandri)
- paka (Noun) a fish also known as ʻōpakapaka
- pakaliao (Noun) codfish
- puhi (Noun) eel
- puhi ao (Noun) Enchelycore pardalis, an eel in the family Muraenidae
- puhi hāpala (Noun) Gymnothorax pictus, an eel in the family Muraenidae
- puhi kauila (Noun) Enchelycore pardalis, an eel in the family Muraenidae
- puhikiʻi (Noun) young flying fish
- pūkiʻi (Noun) young flying fish
- ʻahi (Noun) yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares)
- ʻahi (Noun) bigeye tuna (Thunnus obesus)
- ʻamaʻama (Noun) flathead mullet (Mugil cephalus)
- ʻanae (Noun) mullet (fish)
- ʻaʻā (Verb) to burn, glow
- ʻā (Verb) to burn
- ʻōkuhe (Noun) Eleotris sandwicensis, a fish in the family Eleotridae
- ʻōpakapaka (Noun) crimson jobfish (Pristipomoides filamentosus)
- ʻōpakapaka (Noun) lavender jobfish (Pristipomoides sieboldii)
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Hawaiian dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-04-29 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-04-20 using wiktextract (4eaa824 and ea19a0a).
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