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ohanas

ohanas is the plural of ohana.

Meaning of ohana

Noun

ohana (plural ohanas)

  1. (Hawaii) An extended Hawaiian family unit.
    • [U]nder the leadership of Ka Lahui Hawai'i headed by attorney Mililani Trask, various Native Hawaiian organizations, ohanas, and individuals formed a loose coalition that some refer to as the Hawaiian Nation within a Nation.1989 August 7, Maui Loa, “Testimony on Hawaiian Homestead Hearing, August 7, 1989”, in Administration of Native Hawaiian Home Lands: Joint Hearings before the Select Committee on Indian Affairs...

Questions about ohanas

What is ohanas the plural of?
Ohanas is the plural of ohana.

Words near ohanas in the dictionary

  1. Ohafia
  2. ohaguro
  3. ohai
  4. Ohakune
  5. ohana
  6. ohanas
  7. ohangla
  8. Ohanian
  9. Ohara's fever
  10. Ohashi
  11. Ohashis

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ohanas (page history and authors); ohana (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.

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