Hawaiian
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7.1
- noun
- /həˈwaɪən/
:
hawaiano
- Obviously, in Hawaiian, Aloha means both hello and put your mask on.
Obviously, in Hawaiian, Aloha means both hello and put your mask on.
- Obviously, in Hawaiian, Aloha means both hello and put your mask on.
- And Lanny in Hawaiian means heaven and she is my little heavenly baby, straight from heaven, even though she acts like Stitch sometimes.
Examples
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They thought the sailors' fingers looked like jumping fleas, which in Hawaiian is "ukulele."
Academic text (2006) -
Hawaiian, for instance, was the town's primary language.
Academic text (2008) -
In Hawaiian, that means, "The hands tell a story."
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At school, instruction is half in Hawaiian and half in English.
Academic text (2004) -
I think it means "cool breeze" in Hawaiian.
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In Hawaiian, alala means to cry like a young animal, also to rise with the sun.
Fiction book (1997) -
The Hawaiians decided to name their school "Punana Leo," which means "Language Nest."
Academic text (2004) -
That's Hawaiian for "welcome."
Fiction book (2002) -
When we discovered a pair of thoroughly baked and desiccated ancient sandals woven from ti leaves, we quickly forgot about our own foot problems and marveled at the Hawaiian who made them and wore those slippers over the same rocks and under the same sun.
Academic text (2011) -
In Hawaiian, Aloha means both hello and goodbye.
Synonyms
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7.3
A language spoken by the native people of Hawaii
Compounds
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5.8
A guitar with steel strings that you play using a metal bar to make smooth sliding notes
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2.9
A group of islands in the central Pacific Ocean that form the US state of Hawaii
A dance from Hawaii with slow, graceful hand and hip movements that tell a story
- Specialized
Small to medium birds from the Hawaiian Islands that often have bright colors and special beaks
- Informal
A relaxed way of dealing with time in Hawaii where events often start later than planned
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Hawaiian is the name given to the native language of the islands Hawaii, and the name comes from the island name and an old Polynesian word Hawaiki meaning 'homeland'. So the Hawaiian language is the speech 'of Hawaii' and its people.