humuhumunukunukuāpuaʻa

Compound of humuhumu (“triggerfish”) +‎ nuku (“snout”) +‎ nuku (“blunt”) +‎ ā (conjunction between two adjectives) +‎ puaʻa (“pig; pig-like”) = “triggerfish with a snout that is blunt and pig-like”.

• IPA^(key): [ˌhumuˌhumuˌnukuˌnukuˌwaːpuˈwɐʔə]

humuhumunukunukuāpuaʻa

1. reef triggerfish, humuhumunukunukuapuaa
   • 1998, He Moʻolelo No Kamapuaʻa, G.W. Kahiolo, page 15:

     Ko ia nei heleāiʻa akula nō ia ma ke kino humuhumunukunukuapuaʻa a hiki kēia i Molokaʻi.

     He swam away very quickly in his fish form as a reef triggerfish until he finally reached Molokai.

• 1865, Lorrin Andrews, A Dictionary of the Hawaiian language, page 225
• 1986, Mary Kawena Pukui - Samuel H. Elbert, Hawaiian Dictionary, →ISBN, page 91