{"id":230497,"date":"2026-03-10T15:49:59","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T01:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=230497"},"modified":"2026-03-11T11:18:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T21:18:43","slug":"hawaiian-word-of-the-week-niele","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2026\/03\/10\/hawaiian-word-of-the-week-niele\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawaiian Word of the Week: N\u012bele"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><div class=\"responsive-video-wrap-post\"><figure class=\"wp-block-embed wp-block-embed-youtube is-type-video is-provider-youtube epyt-figure\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe  id=\"_ytid_35327\"  width=\"676\" height=\"676\"  data-origwidth=\"676\" data-origheight=\"676\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S4GARGjXz3U?enablejsapi=1&origin=https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu&rel=0&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"Hawaiian Word of the Week: N\u012bele\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/figure><\/div>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/wehe.hilo.hawaii.edu\/?q=niele\">N\u012bele<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>&#8212;To be curious.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"blocklink\">All <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/olelo-of-the-week\/\">&#699;\u014clelo of the Week<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Ua <span lang=\"haw\">n&#299;ele<\/span> <span lang=\"haw\">n&#257;<\/span> keiki ma loko o ka <span lang=\"haw\">&#699;eke<\/span>. (The children were curious to look inside of the bag).&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;Kiniki Carlson, Hawaiian language student, Honolulu Community College<\/p>\n<p>For more information on other elements of the definition and usage, go to the <abbr>¶«¾«Ó°Òµ<\/abbr> Hilo <a href=\"https:\/\/wehe.hilo.hawaii.edu\/?q=niele\"><em>Wehewehe Wikiwiki<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Check back for more &#699;\u014dlelo <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/olelo-of-the-week-160.jpg\" alt=\"Olelo of the week\" width=\"676\" height=\"160\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-154991\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/olelo-of-the-week-160.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/olelo-of-the-week-160-300x71.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/olelo-of-the-week-160-130x31.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>N\u012bele&#8212;To be curious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":189503,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,12],"tags":[61,33,1057,62,63,64,65,1530,71,14,9,60,947,59,56,66],"class_list":["post-230497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-video","tag-hawaii-community-college","tag-hawaiian","tag-hawaiian-language","tag-honolulu-community-college","tag-kapiolani-community-college","tag-kauai-community-college","tag-leeward-community-college","tag-olelo-of-the-week","tag-uh-community-colleges","tag-uh-hilo","tag-uh-manoa","tag-maui-college","tag-uh-system","tag-uh-west-oahu","tag-video-2","tag-windward-community-college","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/olelo-of-the-week-2022.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230497"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230705,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230497\/revisions\/230705"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}