wahine
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See also: wāhine
English
[edit ]Etymology
[edit ]Borrowed from Māori wahine ("woman"), from Proto-Polynesian *fafine .
Pronunciation
[edit ]Noun
[edit ]wahine (plural wahines )
- A woman, particularly a Polynesian or Maori one.
- Coordinate term: kane
- 1933, Tommy Harrison, Bill Cogswell, Johnny Noble, My Little Grass Shack in Kealakekua, Hawaii :
- I wanna be with all the kanes and wahines that I knew long ago
- 2005, Thomas Lisanti, Hollywood Surf and Beach Movies: The First Wave, 1959–1969, McFarland & Company, page 224:
- One Way Wahine was the next beach movie, after Ride the Wild Surf, to be filmed on the sands of Hawaii. It was marketed to the teenage audience as a beach movie but it is a more serious look at the seamy side of Hawaii and the surf bums and one way wahines who go there to make a quick buck.
- (surfing ) A female surfer.
Anagrams
[edit ]Bunama
[edit ]Etymology
[edit ]Ultimately from Proto-Polynesian *fafine . This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Pronunciation
[edit ]Noun
[edit ]wahine
Further reading
[edit ]- Ross, Malcolm (1988), Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia (Pacific Linguistics; C-98)[1] , Canberra, ACT: Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University
Duau
[edit ]Etymology
[edit ]Ultimately from Proto-Polynesian *fafine . This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Noun
[edit ]wahine
Further reading
[edit ]- Ross, Malcolm (1988), Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia (Pacific Linguistics; C-98)[2] , Canberra, ACT: Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University
Hawaiian
[edit ]Etymology
[edit ]From Proto-Polynesian *fafine , from Proto-Austronesian *bahi ("woman").
Pronunciation
[edit ]Noun
[edit ]wahine (irregular plural wāhine )
Verb
[edit ]wahine
Derived terms
[edit ]- hoʻowahine (causative/simulative)
Related terms
[edit ]Descendants
[edit ]Further reading
[edit ]- wahine in Combined Hawaiian Dictionary, at trussel2.com.
Māori
[edit ]Etymology
[edit ]From Proto-Polynesian *fafine .
Pronunciation
[edit ]Noun
[edit ]wahine (irregular plural wāhine )
Descendants
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