moʻa

Phonologically irregular descendant of Proto-Polynesian *maqoha, from Proto-Oceanic *ma-osak (“ready to be eaten”), from Proto-Austronesian *ma-qesak (“ripe, cooked, ready to eat”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qesak (“ripe, cooked, ready to eat”). Cognate with Maori maoa (“cooked”), Rarotongan maoa (“fully cooked”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmo.ʔa/, [ˈmo.ʔə]

moʻa(stative)

1. cooked
2. burned by the sun
3. made brittle by heat

• hoʻomoʻa (“cook”, verb)
• moʻa hapa (“partly cooked”)
• moʻa loa (“well-done”)

moʻa

1. cooked food

• moʻa in Combined Hawaiian Dictionary, at trussel2.com.
• Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “maqoha”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551-559