"ʻūpā" meaning in Hawaiian

See ʻūpā in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ʔuːˈpaː/
Etymology: From Mandarin, ao “to boil”; pa “eight.” Mandarin Luópán. The original compass was made in a bowl, they put mercury in the bowl with a spoon in the mercury. The bowl was marked with eight spots. The handle of the spoon would point to the magnetic direction (Chinese magnetic compass.) Synonyms (Cantonese) 羅庚/罗庚 (Min Nan) 羅經/罗经, 干經/干经 Head templates: {{head|haw|noun}} ʻūpā
  1. scissors
    Sense id: en-ʻūpā-haw-noun-SToV572o Categories (other): Hawaiian entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Hawaiian entries with incorrect language header: 50 50 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 50 50 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 50 50
  2. compass
    Sense id: en-ʻūpā-haw-noun-0QaL7rlq Categories (other): Hawaiian entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Hawaiian entries with incorrect language header: 50 50 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 50 50 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 50 50
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: pānānā
{
  "etymology_text": "From Mandarin, ao “to boil”; pa “eight.” Mandarin Luópán. The original compass was made in a bowl, they put mercury in the bowl with a spoon in the mercury. The bowl was marked with eight spots. The handle of the spoon would point to the magnetic direction (Chinese magnetic compass.)\nSynonyms\n(Cantonese) 羅庚/罗庚\n(Min Nan) 羅經/罗经, 干經/干经",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "haw",
        "2": "noun"
      },
      "expansion": "ʻūpā",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Hawaiian",
  "lang_code": "haw",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "pānānā"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "50 50",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Hawaiian entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "50 50",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "50 50",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "scissors"
      ],
      "id": "en-ʻūpā-haw-noun-SToV572o",
      "links": [
        [
          "scissors",
          "scissors"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "50 50",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Hawaiian entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "50 50",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "50 50",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "compass"
      ],
      "id": "en-ʻūpā-haw-noun-0QaL7rlq",
      "links": [
        [
          "compass",
          "compass"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ʔuːˈpaː/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ʻūpā"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Hawaiian entries with incorrect language header",
    "Hawaiian lemmas",
    "Hawaiian nouns",
    "Hawaiian terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Mandarin, ao “to boil”; pa “eight.” Mandarin Luópán. The original compass was made in a bowl, they put mercury in the bowl with a spoon in the mercury. The bowl was marked with eight spots. The handle of the spoon would point to the magnetic direction (Chinese magnetic compass.)\nSynonyms\n(Cantonese) 羅庚/罗庚\n(Min Nan) 羅經/罗经, 干經/干经",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "haw",
        "2": "noun"
      },
      "expansion": "ʻūpā",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Hawaiian",
  "lang_code": "haw",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "pānānā"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "scissors"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "scissors",
          "scissors"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "compass"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "compass",
          "compass"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ʔuːˈpaː/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ʻūpā"
}

Download raw JSONL data for ʻūpā meaning in Hawaiian (0.9kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Hawaiian dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (8a39820 and 4401a4c). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.