vahine
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Tahitian vahine (“woman”).
Noun[edit]
vahine (plural vahines)
- Synonym of wahine (“a Polynesian woman”)
Anagrams[edit]
Rapa Nui[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Tahitian vahine (“woman”), from Proto-Polynesian *fafine.
Adjective[edit]
vahine
Derived terms[edit]
Tahitian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Polynesian *fafine.
Noun[edit]
vahine
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- “vahine” in John Davies, A Tahitian and English dictionary, with introductory remarks on the Polynesian language, and a short grammar of the Tahitian dialect: with an appendix containing a list of foreign words used in the Tahitian Bible, in commerce, etc., with the sources from whence they have been derived, 1851, page 308.
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