{"id":181519,"date":"2023-08-08T12:36:32","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T22:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=181519"},"modified":"2023-08-08T12:36:32","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T22:36:32","slug":"hawaiian-word-of-the-week-waimakalehua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2023\/08\/08\/hawaiian-word-of-the-week-waimakalehua\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawaiian Word of the Week: Waimakalehua"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><div class=\"responsive-video-wrap-post\"><figure class=\"wp-block-embed wp-block-embed-youtube is-type-video is-provider-youtube epyt-figure\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe  id=\"_ytid_40398\"  width=\"676\" height=\"676\"  data-origwidth=\"676\" data-origheight=\"676\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pbN6ETfXsYs?enablejsapi=1&origin=https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu&rel=0&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"Hawaiian Word of the Week: Waimakalehua\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/figure><\/div>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/hilo.hawaii.edu\/wehe\/?q=waimakalehua\">Waimakalehua<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>&#8212;Water drops from the lehua trees\u2028<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"blocklink\"><strong>Previous &#699;\u014dlelo<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2023\/08\/01\/hawaiian-word-of-the-week-alakai\/\"><span aria-label=\"Alakai\">Alaka&#699;i<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2023\/07\/18\/hawaiian-word-of-the-week-makawalu\/\">Makawalu<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2023\/07\/11\/hawaiian-word-of-the-week-ola\/\">Ola<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2023\/07\/04\/hawaiian-word-of-the-week-kumu\/\">Kumu<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2023\/06\/20\/hawaiian-word-of-the-week-kupono-2\/\">K\u016bpono<\/a><br \/>\nAll <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/tag\/olelo-of-the-week\/\">&#699;\u014clelo of the Week<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Although it is described as &lsquo;water drops from the lehua trees,&rsquo; in my family my aunt taught me not to use the word <span aria-label=\"mai\">ma&#699;i<\/span> (sick) when referring to my time-of-the-month because it is not shown as a sickness but as a blessing. We use &lsquo;waimakalehua&rsquo; because the &lsquo;water drops&rsquo; represent the &lsquo;drops&rsquo; from our bodies, and the lehua trees represent the red coloring. We use waimakalehua as a better word other than <span aria-label=\"mai\">ma&#699;i<\/span>.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<span aria-label=\"Kauionalani\">Kau&#699;ionalani<\/span> Hamakua-Felix, Hawaiian 101 student, <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaii.hawaii.edu\/\"><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Community College<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more information on other elements of the definition and usage, go to the <abbr>ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½<\/abbr> Hilo <a href=\"https:\/\/hilo.hawaii.edu\/wehe\/?q=waimakalehua\"><em>Wehewehe Wikiwiki<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/olelo-of-the-week-160.jpg\" alt=\"Olelo of the week\" width=\"676\" height=\"160\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-154991\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/olelo-of-the-week-160.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/olelo-of-the-week-160-300x71.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/olelo-of-the-week-160-130x31.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--\n\nEmail: akiyuna@hawaii.edu--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waimakalehua&#8212;Water drops from the lehua trees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,12],"tags":[61,33,1057,62,63,64,65,1530,71,14,9,60,947,59,56,66],"class_list":["post-181519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-video","tag-hawaii-community-college","tag-hawaiian","tag-hawaiian-language","tag-honolulu-community-college","tag-kapiolani-community-college","tag-kauai-community-college","tag-leeward-community-college","tag-olelo-of-the-week","tag-uh-community-colleges","tag-uh-hilo","tag-uh-manoa","tag-maui-college","tag-uh-system","tag-uh-west-oahu","tag-video-2","tag-windward-community-college","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181519"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181522,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181519\/revisions\/181522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}