Hawaiian

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Hawaiian (countable and uncountable, plural Hawaiians)

United States of America
United States of America

(countable, nonstandard, proscribed) A native or resident of the state of Hawaii in the United States of America.


Hawaii

From Hawaiian Hawaiʻi, from Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *Sawaiki (“traditional homeland”).

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I've learned a lot by watching my Democratic colleague from Hawaii Senator Daniel Inouye. He’s a man of uncommon decency. I’ve never seen him demand political loyalty because of party or friendship, and I’ve never known him to go back on his word.

2007, Joe Biden, “Jill”, in Promises to Keep, New York: Random House, published 2008, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 111:

An insular state in the United States, formerly a territory. Capital: Honolulu.

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luau

From Hawaiian lūʻau. Replaced earlier paina (from pāʻina) and ahaaina (from ʻahaʻaina).

Other Americans and Europeans also made their way into court, drawn by its brilliant pageants and lavish lū‘au, or feasts.

2012, Julia Flynn Siler, Lost Kingdom, Grove Press, published 2012, page 13:

MM: No secrets for him because he's the king of Hawaii. And so he said, "Do you want to come to a luau with Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger and Whoopi Goldberg?"

2014 July 7, Hermione Hoby, “Mike Myers: why I made a film about supermensch Shep Gordon”, in The Guardian:

An elaborate Hawaiian feast featuring traditional foods and entertainment.


ohana

Borrowed from Hawaiian ʻohana (“family, kin”).

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From the Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, University of Southern California Libraries, Edward L. Doheny Jr. Memorial Library, Los Angeles, California, USA.

[U]nder the leadership of Ka Lahui Hawai'i headed by attorney Mililani Trask, various Native Hawaiian organizations, ohanas, and individuals formed a loose coalition that some refer to as the Hawaiian Nation within a Nation.

1989 August 7, Maui Loa, “Testimony on Hawaiian Homestead Hearing, August 7, 1989”, in Administration of Native Hawaiian Home Lands: Joint Hearings before the Select Committee on Indian Affairs, United States Senate, and the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, House of Representatives: One Hundred First Congress, First Session on Oversight Hearing on the Administration of Native Hawaiian Home Lands: August 8, 1989, Lihue, Kauai, Part 2 (S. Hrg.; 101-555, Pr. 2), Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, published 1990, →OCLC, page 644:

The ancient Hawaiian society that began around the sixth century and lasted until around 1000 A.D. was based on the extended family group, the ʻohana, living and working cooperatively on the ahupuaʻa under the leadership of the most respected person in the group, the haku. Most members of the ohana were engaged in agriculture, some in fishing, and some were artisans who probably devoted most of their time to their crafts; undoubtedly others were all three.

1992, Thomas Kemper Hitch, “The Polynesian Economy, Sixth Century to Mid-Nineteenth Century”, in Robert M. Kamins, editor, Islands in Transition: The Past, Present, and Future of Hawaii’s Economy, Honolulu, Hi.: First Hawaiian Bank, →ISBN, page 9:

Perhaps that is why Mr. Family celebrates the Hawaiian concept of ohana—not just family, but extended family. Through the characters of Mr. Family—Kal, Erika (who first appeared in The Third Christmas), Hiialo and their ohana—are purely imaginary, perhaps you can feel in these pages the love I've been fortunate to know.

1996, Margot Early, “Dear Reader”, in Mr. Family (Harlequin Super Romance; 711), Toronto, Ont., New York, N.Y.: Harlequin Books, →ISBN:

In 1981, the Honolulu City Council passed a zoning regulation that borrowed from traditional Hawaiian living arrangements to allow for what is termed ʻohana housing: incorporating relatives into an existing structure or building an "'accessory to the principal permitted single-family dwelling' for extra residents […] In Nānā I Ke Kumu (Look to the Source), a book of Hawaiian customs and beliefs, the ʻohana is described as composed of people connected by ties of love and loyalty, duty and obligation. Members of an ʻohana may or may not be blood kin; they are related by virtue of sharing sustenance and support.

1997, Judith Modell, “(Not) In My Back Yard: Housing the Homeless in Hawaiʻi”, in Jan Rensel, Margaret Rodman, editors, Home in the Islands: Housing and; Social Change in the Pacific, Honolulu, Hi.: University of Hawaiʻi Press, →ISBN, page 201:

So, in Hawaiʻi, banks and retailers now regularly emphasize bowdlerized Hawaiian concepts in their advertising, calling their companies "ohanas" (families), for example, or using images of nineteenth-century aliʻi (chiefs) and sacred symbols […]

1999, Houston Wood, “Disorientation: Unwriteable Knowledge”, in Displacing Natives: The Rhetorical Production of Hawaiʻi, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, →ISBN, part 1 (From Conquest to Anti-Conquest), page 53:

The House and Senate are committing more than $30 million to establish “ohana zones” where the homeless can live, but are leaving it to Gov. David Ige’s administration to figure out the details.

2018 April 28, Kevin Dayton, Nanea Kalani, “More than $30M OK’d for ‘ohana zones’”, in Honolulu Star-Advertiser, archived from the original on 2018-05-01:

(chiefly Hawaii) An extended Hawaiian family unit.


ukulele

→ Czech: ukulele

→ German: Ukulele

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→ Portuguese: uquelele, (unadapted form) ukelele, uculele, (unadapted form) ukulele

Borrowed from Hawaiian ʻukulele, from ʻuku (“flea”) + lele (“jump, jumping”).


Hawai'i

The evidence from Hawai’i, Mesoamerica, the American Southwest, and Old World Bronze Age cultures indicates that transient celestial events were not only recognized and categorized, but formed a critical component of mythology, cosmology, politics, religion, and formative science.

2000, “Abstracts”, in Rebecca Paulson, editor, Science in an Uncertain Millennium: 2000 AAAS Annual Meeting and Science Innovation Exposition: February 17-22, 2000 Washington, DC, →OCLC, page A43, column 1:

Greg Asner and colleagues are using remote sensing and high-altitude aircraft combined with field studies to understand the changing ecology in Hawai'i. Their field site on the island of Kauai is shown here.[…]
Using a different approach to map invasives, Greg used satellite data from Tahiti to develop a signature for Miconia calvescens, a destructive invasive plant on both Tahiti and Hawai’i.

2005, Christopher Field, “Director’s Report”, in Year Book 03/04 President’s Report, Carnegie Institution of Washington, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 73, 76:

Billboard Magazine dubbed Hawai’i-based Hapa “the hottest Hawai’ian band,” and PBS did a whole feature on them. Well, move over, Hapa, because the Barefoot Natives are coming to town. And for local lovers of island grooves, the addition of this amazing two-man band to the Hawai’ian roster illustrates the saying that you can’t have too much of a good thing.

2006 July 6, Melissa Bearns, “Sweet Summer Melodies”, in Eugene Weekly, What's Happening, Inc., →OCLC, page 37, column 1:

Everybody loves food especially food from Hawai’i.
There is an upcoming event called the National Restaurant Association Show and Hawai’i is being represented by the one and only Adela’s Country Eatery in Kāne’ohe.

2023 May 18, Kamaka Pili, “Kāne’ohe eatery representing Hawai’i in National Restaurant Association Show”, in KHON-TV, archived from the original on 2023-05-19:


HST

Hubble Space Telescope
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(space science, US, NASA) Initialism of Hubble Space Telescope.


Sandwich Islands

Named in 1778 by Captain James Cook in honour of the First Lord of the Admiralty, John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich.

[…]I should be sorry to form an unworthy estimate of that of my own circle, though I have several times met with the foregoing confusion, as well as the following and other equally ill-informed questions, one or two of which I reluctantly admit that I might have been guilty of myself before I visited the Pacific: “Whereabouts are the Sandwich Islands? They are not the same as the Fijis, are they?

1875, Isabella L. Bird, The Hawaiian Archipelago:

(obsolete) An early name for the archipelago of nineteen Hawaiian Islands.

James Cook
John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich
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Hawaiʻian

Today Molokaʻi is often called the Friendly Isle, possibly due to the fact that the largest population of Native Hawaiians live there. Historically, Molokaʻi has been a place for the spiritual leaders of the Hawaiʻian culture to gather.

2007, Jake Goldberg, Joyce Hart, “Geography: The Island State”, in Hawaiʻi (Juvenile Literature), Marshall Cavendish, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 19:

(Hawaii) Alternative spelling of Hawaiian


Aloha State

United States of America
United States of America#English

The official nickname for the state of Hawaii in the United States of America.


aloha shirt

Former trademark, coined by Ellery Chun.

At this election booth one of the officials wears the popular, brightly colored "aloha" shirt; the other a feather lei about his hat.

No Savile Row suit, no pure silk business ensemble, no costume of any sort, modern or ancient, can possibly beat the traditional aloha shirt for pure form-follows-function glory. Put on a real aloha shirt, with primary colors detonating all over the surface, and you couldn't hang on to a bummer of a mood if your sister was dating Saddam Hussein.

1996 September, Patrick Mott, “100% Cotton Prozac”, in Orange Coast, volume 22, number 9, →ISSN, page 28:

Emanuel was proud of his image reflected in the glass—tropical blooms covered every inch of his short-sleeved aloha shirt in a busy design of Hawaiian hibiscus, poinsettia, and bougainvillea.

1999 December 14, Robert B. Stinnett, Day of Deceit: The Truth about FDR and Pearl Harbor, New York: The Free Press, →ISBN, page 83:

The design motifs on the early 1930s aloha shirts were generally Japanese or Chinese and applied to the greige goods by roller printing in Japan.

2006 Spring, Linda B. Arthur, “The Aloha Shirt and Ethnicity in Hawai'i”, in Textile: The Journal of Cloth and Culture, volume 4, number 1, Berg Publishers, →DOI, pages 8–34:

Oceanic Linguistics
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A collared shirt of a type originating in Hawaii, often brilliantly colored with floral or Polynesian patterns.


Hawaiian shirt

A bartender in a straw hat was dispensing frozen tropical drinks that were as colorful as the bright flowers splashed across the fabric of his loud Hawaiian shirt.

2005, Cynthia Baxter, Lead a Horse to Murder, Bantem Dell, →ISBN, page 127:

A collared, short-sleeved shirt of a style originating in Hawaii, typically having a brightly-colored Polynesian print.


Hawaiian steak

From its popularity in Hawaii, stemming from World War II.

(US, humorous) Spam (a tinned meat product).


Hawaiian Kingdom

A former sovereign state on the islands of Hawaii (1795–1893) which later became the state of Hawaii.


Hawaiiana

Artifacts relating to the state of Hawaii in the United States.