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Hawaiian[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Proto-Polynesian *kaha (“to burn”). Cognates include Rapa Nui kā and Maori kā.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
ʻā
Related terms[edit]
Verb[edit]
ʻā
- (intransitive) to burn
Etymology 2[edit]
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “t”)
Verb[edit]
ʻā
- (transitive) to drive (i.e. animals)
- to dare (someone to do something)
Etymology 3[edit]
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun[edit]
ʻā
- booby indigenous to Hawaii
Etymology 4[edit]
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun[edit]
ʻā
- young damselfish
Etymology 5[edit]
Interjection[edit]
ʻā
Etymology 6[edit]
Noun[edit]
ʻā
- The name of the Latin-script letter A/a.
References[edit]
Categories:
- Hawaiian terms derived from Proto-Oceanic
- Hawaiian terms inherited from Proto-Oceanic
- Hawaiian terms derived from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian
- Hawaiian terms inherited from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian
- Hawaiian terms derived from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian
- Hawaiian terms inherited from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian
- Hawaiian terms derived from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian
- Hawaiian terms inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian
- Hawaiian terms inherited from Proto-Polynesian
- Hawaiian terms derived from Proto-Polynesian
- Hawaiian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Hawaiian lemmas
- Hawaiian nouns
- Hawaiian verbs
- Hawaiian intransitive verbs
- Hawaiian transitive verbs
- Hawaiian interjections
- haw:Latin letter names