akule

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Hawaiian [Term?].

Noun

akule (plural akule)

1. (Hawaii) The bigeye scad, Selar crumenophthalmus.
   • 2012, Julia Flynn Siler, Lost Kingdom, Grove Press, page 122:

     Residents of the island also told of a school of red akule fish that had been spotted in the waters off the island of Hawai‘i, which traditionally foretold the death of an ali‘i.

Estonian

Noun

akule

1. allative singular of aku