LAPU
nvs. Ghost (Isa. 34.14), apparition, phantom, specter; haunted; to haunt; to act as a ghost. Ua lapu ke keiki a kāua iaʻu (For. 5:557), I have been haunted by, our child. hoʻo.lapu To pretend to be a ghost, as children on Halloweʻen. akua lapu, akua. Also: mauli, wailua; maka pilau, haili, makani, hoaka, akalau. See Holy Ghost. Ghost procession, huaka i po, oi ,o, kao oloa. To give up the ghost, ku u i ka uhane.
GHOST
Pronunciation: 'gOst
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English gost, gast, from Old English gAst; akin to Old High German geist spirit, Sanskrit heda anger
1 : the seat of life or intelligence : SOUL
2 : a disembodied soul; especially : the soul of a dead person believed to be an inhabitant of the unseen world or to appear to the living in bodily likeness
3 : SPIRIT, DEMON Synonyms apparition, bogey (also bogy or bogie), phantasm, phantom, poltergeist, shade, shadow, specter (or spectre), spirit, spook, vision, wraith
