ʻEwa

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See also: ewa and Ewa

Hawaiian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈʔe.wa/,

Etymology 1

Ultimately from Hebrew חַוָּה (khava) .

Proper noun

ʻEwa

(biblical) Eve (wife of Adam)
a female given name originating from the Bible

Etymology 2

ʻewa (“crooked, unjust”)

Proper noun

ʻEwa

Ewa (a locality west of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, United States, used as a direction in Honolulu)
ʻAʻole au i hele ma ʻEwa ― I did not go in the direction of ʻEwa.

References

Ka Baibala Hemolele
Mary Kawena Pukui - Samuel H. Elbert, Hawaiian Dictionary, University of Hawaii Press 1986, page 42
Hawaii State Archives: Marriage records Ewa (in the old orthography) occurs in 19th-century marriage records as the only name (mononym) of 6 women and 2 men.

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