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ʻāina

ʻāina noun: land in a Hawaiian cultural context.

Noun

ʻāina (uncountable)

  1. land in a Hawaiian cultural context.
    • There is that polynesian concept of "aina" which is, at least for me, concept of "Blut and Boden" on steroids.2000 August 3, S. Kolarich, “Question: How to ̼effectivly ^([sic]) fight against Pacific Apartheid?”, in soc.culture.pacific-island (Usenet)
    • All genres of Hawaiian literature, with the exception of translated works from other languages, reflect our people's close relationship to and deep love for the ʻāina.2014, James H. Cox, James Howard Cox, Daniel Heath Justice, The Oxford Handbook of Indigenous American Literature, Oxford Handbooks, →ISBN, page 103

Origin of ʻāina

Borrowed from Hawaiian ʻāina. Doublet of kainga.

Questions about ʻāina

What does ʻāina mean?
ʻāina means land in a Hawaiian cultural context.
What part of speech is ʻāina?
ʻāina is a noun.

Words near ʻāina in the dictionary

  1. ʻohanas
  2. ʻokina
  3. ʻokinas
  4. ʻukulele
  5. ʻukuleles
  6. ʻāina
  7. ʻākohekohe
  8. ʻākohekohes
  9. ʾiḍāfa
  10. ʿain
  11. ʿayin

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