Tahiti

See also: tahiti and Tahití

English

Alternative forms

• Otaheite (obsolete spelling)

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /təˈhiːti/, /tɑˈhiːti/

• Audio (General American):

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• Rhymes: -iːti

Proper noun

Tahiti

2. the largest island in French Polynesia.

   Synonyms: George's Island, King George the Third's Island

3. (historical) A former kingdom in Polynesia, Pacific Ocean.

   Synonym: Kingdom of Tahiti

Derived terms

• Tahitian
• Tahiti petrel

Translations

island

• Arabic: تَاهِيتِي f (tāhītī)
• Armenian: Տահիտի (Tahiti)
• Belarusian: Таі́ці m (Taíci)
• Bengali: তাহিতি (tahiti)
• Bulgarian: Таи́ти (Taíti)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 塔希提 (zh) (Tǎxītí), 大溪地 (zh) (Dàxīdì)

• Czech: Tahiti n
• Danish: Tahiti
• Dutch: Tahiti (nl) n
• Finnish: Tahiti (fi)
• French: Tahiti (fr) f
• Galician: Tahití (gl)
• Georgian: ტაიტი (ṭaiṭi)
• German: Tahiti (de) n
• Greek: Ταϊτή (el) (Taïtí)
• Hawaiian: Kahiki, Polapola
• Hindi: ताहिती (tāhitī)
• Japanese: タヒチ (ja) (Tahichi)
• Korean: 타히티 (Tahiti)
• Lithuanian: Tahitis m, Taitis m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Tahiti

  Nynorsk: Tahiti

• Persian: تاهیتی (fa) (tâhiti)
• Portuguese: Taiti m
• Russian: Таи́ти (ru) m (Taíti)
• Sinhalese: ටහිටි (ṭahiṭi)
• Spanish: Tahití
• Tahitian: Tahiti
• Tajik: Таити (Tayit-i)
• Tongan: Tahisi
• Ukrainian: Таї́ті m (Tajíti)
• Urdu: تاہیٹی (tāhitī)
• Volapük: Tahiteän
• Welsh: Tahiti f
• Yiddish: טאַהיטי (tahiti)

Czech

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtaɦɪtɪ]
• Rhymes: -ɪtɪ
• Hyphenation: Ta‧hi‧ti

Proper noun

Tahiti n (indeclinable, relational adjective tahitský, demonym Tahiťan, female demonym Tahiťanka)

1. Tahiti (the largest island in French Polynesia)

Related terms

• tahitština f

Further reading

• “Tahiti”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “Tahiti”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026

French

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta.i.ti/

Proper noun

Tahiti m

1. Tahiti (the largest island in French Polynesia)

Derived terms

• Tahitien
• tahitien

German

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [taˈhiːti]

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -iːti
• Hyphenation: Ta‧hi‧ti

Proper noun

Tahiti n (proper noun, genitive Tahitis or (optionally with an article) Tahiti)

1. Tahiti (the largest island in French Polynesia)

Related terms

• Tahitianer
• Tahitianerin
• Tahitianisch
• tahitianisch
• tahitisch
• Tahitisch

Further reading

• “Tahiti” in Duden online
• “Tahiti”, in Online-Wortschatz-Informationssystem Deutsch (in German), Mannheim: Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache, 2008–
• “Tahiti” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon

Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Tahiti

1. Tahiti (the largest island in French Polynesia)

Derived terms

• tahitier
• tahitisk

Related terms

• Fransk Polynesia

Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Tahiti

1. Tahiti (the largest island in French Polynesia)

Derived terms

• tahitiar
• tahitisk

Related terms

• Fransk Polynesia

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taxîtiː/

Proper noun

Tahȉtī m inan (Cyrillic spelling Тахи̏тӣ)

1. Tahiti (the largest island in French Polynesia)

Declension

Declension of Tahiti

	singular
nominative	Tahiti
genitive	Tahitija
dative	Tahitiju
accusative	Tahiti
vocative	Tahiti
locative	Tahitiju
instrumental	Tahitijem

Further reading

• “Tahiti”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026

Tahitian

Etymology

From Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *tafiti. Cognate with Hawaiian kahiki (“foreign country”), Māori tawhiti (“distant”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta.hi.ti/

Proper noun

Tahiti

1. Tahiti (the largest island in French Polynesia)

Further reading

• Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “TAFITI.1”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551-559

Welsh

Etymology

Borrowed from English Tahiti.

Proper noun

Tahiti f

1. Tahiti (the largest island in French Polynesia)

Derived terms

• brenin Tahiti (“Tahiti monarch”)
• colomen Tahiti (“Polynesian imperial pigeon”)
• corgoblyn Tahiti (“Tahitian swiftlet”)
• gylfinir Tahiti (“bristle-thighed curlew”)
• lori Tahiti (“Tahitian lory”)
• pedryn Tahiti (“Tahiti petrel”)
• pysgotwr Tahiti (“Tahitian kingfisher”)

Further reading

• Griffiths, Bruce; Glyn Jones, Dafydd (1995), Geiriadur yr Academi: The Welsh Academy English–Welsh Dictionary‎^[1], Cardiff: University of Wales Press, →ISBN, page Tahiti