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English
Etymology
Hawaiian ʻāina
Noun
ʻāina (uncountable)
- land in a Hawaiian cultural context.
2000 August 3, S. Kolarich, “Question: How to ̼effectivly fight against Pacific Apartheid?”, in soc.culture.pacific-island (Usenet):There is that polynesian concept of "aina" which is, at least for me, concept of "Blut and Boden" on steroids.
2014, James H. Cox, James Howard Cox, Daniel Heath Justice, The Oxford Handbook of Indigenous American Literature, Oxford Handbooks, →ISBN, page 103: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.
2016 June 3, Brandy Nalani McDougall, Finding Meaning: Kaona and Contemporary Hawaiian Literature, University of Arizona Press, →ISBN, page 95:The genealogical kinship we share with the ʻāina and the lani.
Hawaiian
Etymology
Likely cognate to Maori kāinga.
Pronunciation
Noun
ʻāina
- land (earth; country; real estate)
Derived terms
Further reading
- Pukui, Mary Kawena, Elbert, Samuel H. (1986) “ʻāina”, in Hawaiian Dictionary, revised & enlarged edition, Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai'i Press, →ISBN