koloa

koloa (plural koloas)

1. The Hawaiian duck, Anas wyvilliana.
   • 2000, Errol Fuller, Extinct Birds, Oxford, page 83:

     The Hawaiian duck or koloa (Anas wyvilliana) has never been reduced to anything like the pitiful remnant that once represented its relatives on Laysan.

• lokao

From kolo +‎ -oa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoloɑˣ/,
• Rhymes: -oloɑ
• Syllabification^(key): ko‧lo‧a

koloa

1. (transitive) to make holes (in)

• “koloa”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoloɑ/,
• Rhymes: -oloɑ
• Syllabification^(key): ko‧lo‧a

koloa

1. partitive singular of kolo

koloa

1. something carried on the back

From Proto-Polynesian *koloa. Cognates include Hawaiian ʻoloa and Samoan 'oloa.

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: ko‧lo‧a

koloa

1. wealth, riches
2. goods
3. stock, supply

• fale koloa

• R. Simona, editor (1986), Tokelau Dictionary‎, Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 165