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With such an amazing culture to experience, why not learn more about the language as well?
Here in the Language Audio Dictionary, you can test yourself with common phrases, mispronounced words and island names.
Meaning: Until we meet again; used for "goodbye"
Meaning: Land division, extending from the mountain to the sea, often times pie-shaped; resources managed within this land division
Meaning: Land, earth; especially Hawaiian ancestral land
Meaning: Smart, clever, intelligent
Meaning: Hawaiian royalty; chief; royal or chiefly class
Meaning: Hello, goodbye, love; extension of welcome and friendship
Meaning: Good Evening
Meaning: Good Afternoon
Meaning: Good Morning
Meaning: Welcome! Enter
Meaning: House; building
Meaning: House of the sun; extinct volcano of east Maui, also a National Park
Meaning: House of the frigate bird; town and beach on Oʻahu
Meaning: Encore, do it again
Meaning: Curved bay or hand-wresting bay; Marine life conservation area on the southeast of Oʻahu
Meaning: Half, portion; a reference to those of mixed ancestry
Meaning: Largest Hawaiian Island; later the name of the unified islands under the rule of Kamehameha the Great originally from this island
Meaning: Happy, glad, joy
Meaning: Happy Birthday
Meaning: Happy New Year
Meaning: Pre-Christian place of worship, still considered sacred to this day
Meaning: To travel around for enjoyment; also used as a reference for fishing – it was superstition to say you were going “holoholo” instead of fishing so as to not alert the fish
Meaning: Bays of Piʻilani; 14th century high chief of Maui
Meaning: Protected bay; capitol city of the State of Hawaiʻi
Meaning: Sea turtle
Meaning: Hospitality
Meaning: Pull
Meaning: The dance of Hawaiʻi; hula kahiko, traditional hula; hula ‘auana, contemporary hula
Meaning: Turn
Meaning: Humuhumu (triggerfish) with a snout like a pig; the State fish; a type of triggerfish
Meaning: Underground oven
Meaning: Feather cloak; favorite wife of King Kamehameha I and first regent upon her husband’s death. She influenced the abolishment of the kapu and aided in the introduction of Christianity in the Islands
Meaning: Kāʻana cliff; beach and resort area on Maui
Meaning: Money, dollar
Meaning: The taking or carrying away (by the currents); smallest of the eight major Hawaiian Islands. Used for target practice by the US Armed Forces until the early 1990s, the island is part of Maui County
Meaning: Guardian, caretaker
Meaning: The winning; name of the airport on Maui (OGG)
Meaning: Priest; priestly class
Meaning: Sea, salt water
Meaning: The day of battle; David Kalākaua, King of Hawaiʻi from 1874 to 1891. Refers to the avenue in Waikīkī and a park in Hilo
Meaning: The royal chief without measure; Prince Jonah Kūhiō Kalanianaʻole, nephew of Queen Kapiʻolani and heir to the Hawaiian throne. Highway on Oʻahu
Meaning: Pork cooked in an imu (underground oven)
Meaning: Child of the land; native-born; acquainted, familiar; commonly refers to a long-time resident of Hawai`i
Meaning: The lonely one; unifier of the Hawaiian Islands; Highway on Oʻahu and avenue in Hilo
Meaning: Person; Hawaiian person
Meaning: Male; man; husband, men
Meaning: The solid or the closing; land division on Kauaʻi, Oʻahu and Hawaiʻi
Meaning: Two borders; beach and resort area in Honolua, Maui
Meaning: The arch of heaven (arch referring to a rainbow, significant in the rank of ali‘i); Chiefess Kapiʻolani defied the goddess of fire in the name of Christianity in 1824, namesake of Queen Kapiʻolani
Meaning: Sacred, taboo, forbidden; no trespassing; base of ancient Hawaiian religion
Meaning: Fourth largest Hawaiian island
Meaning: Pathway of the god; land section on southern Hawaiʻi. Site where Captain James Cook died
Meaning: The new era; land section on the island of Hawaiʻi
Meaning: Child, offspring
Meaning: Cape, cloak; land section, beach and resort area on South Maui
Meaning: Help; assistance
Meaning: Responsibility;privilege; ownership
Meaning: Grandparent, elder; ancestor/grandparents, elders;ancestors
Meaning: Porch, patio, or balcony
Meaning: Day of conquest; sixth largest Hawaiian island, falls under the jurisdiction of Maui County
Meaning: Flowers, leaves, shells or feathers that are strung and/or entwined and given as a symbol of affection; not gender specific as is the belief
Meaning: Cold chill; capitol of Kauaʻi, name of airport (LIH)
Meaning: adj. Resembling something; Younger sister of King Kalākaua and Queen Liliʻuokalani. Highway on Oʻahu
Meaning: Hawaiian feast; edible young leaves of the taro plant; often to celebrate a 1-year birth, wedding, graduation, etc
Meaning: Directional reference, toward the sea
Meaning: Directional reference, toward the mountain, Inland
Meaning: Thanks, gratitude; respect
Meaning: Thank you very much
Meaning: A newcomer, visitor; new, unfamiliar, of foreign origin
Meaning: Second largest Hawaiian island, named in honor of the demigod, Māui
Meaning: Chant or melodic song for hula dancing; poem, poetry
Meaning: Merry Christmas
Meaning: Fifth largest Hawaiian Island
Meaning: Long, loose dress; mother hubbard style dress; missionary influenced
Meaning: Seventh largest Hawaiian island, privately owned and not opened to tourism
Meaning: Third largest Hawaiian island
Meaning: Family, extended family, kin group, relative, close friends
Meaning: Delicious, to crave
Meaning: Cliff
Meaning: Cowboy
Meaning: Finished, ended, all done
Meaning: The Hawaiian staple food; made from steamed, pounded taro
Meaning: Completely overcast or crashing (as in waves); land section and resort area in South Kauaʻi
Meaning: To cube; a Hawaiian dish commonly made of raw cubed fish and seasonings; eaten as an appetizer
Meaning: Snacks, Appertizers, Hors d'oeuvres
Meaning: Woman/Women, wife
Meaning: Duck water; land section and resort area on the island of Hawaiʻi
Meaning: Reddish water; land section Kauai, Oʻahu and Hawaiʻi
Meaning: Fast or speedy; name of the shuttle at Honolulu International Airport