Word.ws English Dictionary

Haumea

/ˌhɑː.uːˈmeɪ.ə/

Haumea proper noun: the goddess of fertility and childbirth.

Proper noun

Haumea

  1. (Hawaiian mythology) The goddess of fertility and childbirth.
  2. A dwarf planet with two known moons orbiting in the Kuiper belt, roughly one-third the mass of Pluto.
    • Deep searches for regular satellites around Kuiper belt objects are difficult due to observational limitations, but Haumea is one of the few for which sufficient data exist.2016 May 27, Luke D. Burkhart, Darin Ragozzine, Michael E. Brown, “A Deep Search for Additional Satellites around the Dwarf Planet Haumea”, in The Astronomical Journal, volume 151, number 6, archived...

Haumea meaning in Arabic, Thai and Vietnamese

Haumea in Arabic

celestial body
هَاوْمِيَا hāwmiyā

Haumea in Thai

celestial body
เฮาเมอา ḥeā me xā
goddess of fertility and childbirth
เฮาเมอา ḥeā me xā

Haumea in Vietnamese

celestial body
Haumea

Synonyms of Haumea

  • 🝻

Origin of Haumea

From Hawaiian hau (“ruler”) (archaic) + mea (“reddish brown”), "red ruler".

Questions about Haumea

What does Haumea mean?
Haumea means the goddess of fertility and childbirth.
What is Haumea in Arabic?
Haumea in Arabic is هَاوْمِيَا (hāwmiyā). See Haumea meaning in Arabic.
What part of speech is Haumea?
Haumea is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Haumea?
Haumea is pronounced /ˌhɑː.uːˈmeɪ.ə/.

Words near Haumea in the dictionary

  1. haulsters
  2. hault
  3. haulyard
  4. haulyards
  5. haum
  6. Haumea
  7. Haumean
  8. haums
  9. Haumurian
  10. Haun
  11. haunce

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Haumea (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Haumea.wav.

Cite this entry: “Haumea.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/haumea. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.