greimmo.blogg.se - Hawaiian pidgin translator

The pono choice, however, would be to avoid littering, as it affects the earth, creating imbalance and introducing a foreign substance into the natural world. Littering is easy to do because it requires effort to put something into the garbage, especially if there isn't one nearby. The concept may feel a bit lofty until one considers an example. In other words, will what you're about to do help bring harmony and good into the world? It is a guiding principle that is to shape their every decision.

The concept of pono is taught to Hawaiian children at a very young age. It is something to authentically aspire to rather than to fully attain, mostly because pono means more than doing the right thing in a given situation, but rather living life with balance, harmony and integrity, seeking to improve the surrounding world. It differs slightly from the other values in that, for most, it is slightly out of reach. Pono, like mahalo, or a thankful way of living, and kuleana, or a sense of personal responsibility, is one of the values of the aloha spirit that's so deeply ingrained in Hawaiian culture. Mai pono hana ʻoe, akā e hana pono, don't work carelessly, but work carefully. Pononō i ka noho, living any old way, shiftless. Ponohana, to work any way that suits one. For example: Ponoʻai, to eat in any way or anything, take potluck. Careless, informal, improper, any kind of (preceding a stem).Property, resources, assets, fortune, belongings, equipment, household goods, furniture, gear of any kind, possessions, accessories, necessities.

Completely, properly, rightly, well, exactly, carefully, satisfactorily, much (an intensifier).

Goodness, uprightness, morality, moral qualities, correct or proper procedure, excellence, well-being, prosperity, welfare, benefit, behalf, equity, sake, true condition or nature, duty moral, fitting, proper, righteous, right, upright, just, virtuous, fair, beneficial, successful, in perfect order, accurate, correct, eased, relieved should, ought, must, necessary.

While we most often think of pono as an adjective, some meanings here are nouns or adverbs: Samuel Hoyt Elbert's Hawaiian dictionary gives six different meanings for pono. To be pono means to be in a state of harmony or balance with oneself, others, the land, work and life itself. What's missing with the word "righteousness," however, is the balance and harmony pono connotes for Hawaiians. If there were one, it would probably be "righteousness," as in the state motto: "Ua Mau ke Ea o ka Aina i ka Pono," or "The life of the land is perpetuated in righteousness." Pono, like many Hawaiian words, does not have a one-to-one-word English translation.