There are four online Hawaiian Dictionaries available:
wehewehe.org is a website that hosts the Pūkuʻi, Andrews, Parker, and Māmaka Kaiao dictionaries, and place names books.
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A few notes on Hawaiian dictionaries:
**When using an online dictionary, you do not have to type ʻokina and kahakō in the search field.
**When using an online dictionary, you do not have to type ʻokina and kahakō in the search field.
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The Pūkuʻi Dictionary is by far the best resource available to Hawaiian language speakers. This dictionary has both a Hawaiian-English section and an English-Hawaiian section and is the most accurate in terms of spelling. This dictionary follows the American alphabetical order (ABCs).
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The Andrews dictionary “was produced when the language was used by nearly everyone in Hawaiʻi” - thus its purpose was to assist speakers using a living language. By contrast, the Pūkuʻi dictionary was created during a time when Hawaiian was not widely spoken, and so the dictionary was meant to help translators. This results in slightly different information in the two books. Andrews explains certain cultural concepts in addition to giving the English translation, while Pūkuʻi gives the translation as well as the pronunciation (the Andrews dictionary lacks the ʻokina and kahakō). Andrews’ follows the Hawaiian alphabetical order (see Pīʻāpā).
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Māmaka Kaiao is the publication of the Hawaiian Language Lexicon Committee and adds more than 1,000 new and contemporary words to the Pūkuʻi dictionary that are essential to the continuation and growth of the Hawaiian language.
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For easy access, add these dictionaries to your smartphone home screen:
