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.
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