Kāʻanapali

Inoa | Name(s)

Kāʻanapali

Hiʻona ʻāina | Land characteristic: Moku

Hiʻona ʻāina o loko o kēia wahi | Feature(s) located within this place: Alaeloa; Honokahua; Honokeana; Honokōhau; Honokōwai; Honolua; Kahakuloa; Kahana; Mailepai; Moʻomoku; Māhinahina; Nāpili

Hiʻona ʻāina nona kēia wahi | Feature(s) that contain this place: Maui

Hōʻuluʻulu manaʻo

He moku kēia ma ka mokupuni o Maui. Aia ma ka ʻaoʻao komohana ʻākau o ka mokupuni ma kahi kokoke i Lāhainā ma ka ʻaoʻao hema, a me Pūʻali Komohana. No Kāʻanapali ʻōlelo ʻia he mau ʻōlelo noʻeau no ka ʻāina ma laila, “Ka pali hinahina o Kāʻanapali,” no nā pali o ia wahi, a no ka ua, ʻōlelo ʻia “Ka ua leina hua o Kāʻanapali,” a me “Ka ua Lililehua o Kāʻanapali.” 

Description

Landing, village, district, and golf course, Lahaina qd., Maui. Also called Pōhaku-Kāʻana-pali and Kāʻanapali-pōhaku. (PH 83.) Lit., Kāʻana cliff. (Place Names of Hawaii)

ʻŌlelo kuhikuhi

E koho iā “Kāʻanapali” no nā kumuwaiwai pili i ka moku o Kāʻanapali ma ka mokupuni o Maui. 

Instructions

Use for the moku of Kāʻanapali on the island of Maui.

Moʻokūʻauhau | Genealogy

Akua | Deity: Maui

Kanaka | Person: Kaululāʻau

Hana: Mahiʻai kalo; Mahiʻai ʻuala; Hoʻohāhāpaʻakai

Kūmole | Source(s)

“Kāʻanapali,” Inoa ʻĀina Hawaiʻi Database, Ulukau: The Hawaiian Electronic Library.

Pata, Cody Pueo. ʻOhuʻohu Nā Mauna o ʻEʻeka : Place Names of Maui Komohana. Lahaina, Maui, Hawai’i: North Beach-West Maui Benefit Fund Inc., 2022.

Pukui, Mary Kawena. ’Olelo No’eau : Hawaiian Proverbs & Poetical Sayings. Honolulu, Hawai’i: Bishop Museum Press, 1983.

Pukui, Mary Kawena, Samuel H. (Samuel Hoyt) Elbert, and Esther T. Mookini. Place Names of Hawaii. Rev. and enl. Ed. Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, 1976. Ulukau: The Hawaiian Electronic Library.

Sterling, Elspeth P. Sites of Maui. Honolulu: Bishop Museum Press, 1998.

Hoʻopili ʻia i | Applied to: Kaanapali, ʻOhuʻohu nā mauna o ʻEʻeka : place names of Maui Komohana

Mea haku | Created by: Na ka hui ʻimi naʻauao o Ka Wai Hāpai