"meli" meaning in Hawaiian

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "haw",
        "2": "grc",
        "3": "μέλι"
      },
      "expansion": "Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek μέλι (méli)",
      "name": "learned borrowing"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "honey"
      },
      "expansion": "honey",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "haw",
        "2": "hani",
        "gloss": "flirt, act coy"
      },
      "expansion": "hani (“flirt, act coy”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "haw",
        "2": "honi",
        "gloss": "kiss"
      },
      "expansion": "honi (“kiss”)",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek μέλι (méli). Coined by missionaries for the 1839 translation of the Bible. The missionaries had considered transcribing honey into Hawaiian as either hani (“flirt, act coy”) or as honi (“kiss”). The two were considered unacceptable as being too impure and as such the missionaries went to Ancient Greek to coin a word.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "haw",
        "2": "noun",
        "head": ""
      },
      "expansion": "meli",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "meli",
      "name": "haw-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Hawaiian",
  "lang_code": "haw",
  "pos": "noun",
  "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"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "And after a time he returned to take her, and he turned aside to see the carcase of the lion: and, behold, there was a swarm of bees and honey in the carcase of the lion.",
          "roman": "A mahope iho hoi mai la ia e lawe ia ia, kipa ae la ia e nana i ke kino o ka liona, aia hoi, he poe nalomeli, a me ka meli pu maloko o ke kino o ua liona la.",
          "text": "1839 Ka Baibala: Lunakanawai 14:8 (tr. Authorized Version of the Bible, Judges 14:8)",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "honey"
      ],
      "id": "en-meli-haw-noun-pV4uOEal",
      "links": [
        [
          "honey",
          "honey"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "50 50",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Hawaiian entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "bee"
      ],
      "id": "en-meli-haw-noun-YsuBtZBK",
      "links": [
        [
          "bee",
          "bee"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "sense": "bee",
          "word": "nalo meli"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "meli"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Hawaiian entries with incorrect language header",
    "Hawaiian learned borrowings from Ancient Greek",
    "Hawaiian lemmas",
    "Hawaiian nouns",
    "Hawaiian terms borrowed from Ancient Greek",
    "Hawaiian terms derived from Ancient Greek"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "haw",
        "2": "grc",
        "3": "μέλι"
      },
      "expansion": "Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek μέλι (méli)",
      "name": "learned borrowing"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "honey"
      },
      "expansion": "honey",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "haw",
        "2": "hani",
        "gloss": "flirt, act coy"
      },
      "expansion": "hani (“flirt, act coy”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "haw",
        "2": "honi",
        "gloss": "kiss"
      },
      "expansion": "honi (“kiss”)",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek μέλι (méli). Coined by missionaries for the 1839 translation of the Bible. The missionaries had considered transcribing honey into Hawaiian as either hani (“flirt, act coy”) or as honi (“kiss”). The two were considered unacceptable as being too impure and as such the missionaries went to Ancient Greek to coin a word.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "haw",
        "2": "noun",
        "head": ""
      },
      "expansion": "meli",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "meli",
      "name": "haw-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Hawaiian",
  "lang_code": "haw",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Hawaiian terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "And after a time he returned to take her, and he turned aside to see the carcase of the lion: and, behold, there was a swarm of bees and honey in the carcase of the lion.",
          "roman": "A mahope iho hoi mai la ia e lawe ia ia, kipa ae la ia e nana i ke kino o ka liona, aia hoi, he poe nalomeli, a me ka meli pu maloko o ke kino o ua liona la.",
          "text": "1839 Ka Baibala: Lunakanawai 14:8 (tr. Authorized Version of the Bible, Judges 14:8)",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "honey"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "honey",
          "honey"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "bee"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "bee",
          "bee"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "bee",
      "word": "nalo meli"
    }
  ],
  "word": "meli"
}