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Hawaiian vocabulary often overlaps with other Polynesian languages, such as Tahitian, so it is not always clear which of those languages a term is borrowed from. The Hawaiian orthography is notably different from the English orthography because there is a special letter in the Hawaiian alphabet, the ʻokina .
"When you see lei, it's such a beautiful thing and you can’t wait to wear it," Texeira said, "But when you do wear lei, you're not only wearing these flowers, but you're wearing all of the mana ...
A Hawaiian name is a name in the Hawaiian language. ... And, just like in Hawaiian poetry, an allusion was considered more beautiful than a plain statement. [1]
Aloha (/ ə ˈ l oʊ h ɑː / ə-LOH-hah, Hawaiian:) is the Hawaiian word for love, affection, peace, compassion and mercy, that is commonly used as a greeting. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It has a deeper cultural and spiritual significance to native Hawaiians , for whom the term is used to define a force that holds together existence.
Kuʻu Hae Aloha (My Beloved Flag) Hawaiian cotton quilt from Maui, c. 1890s, Mission Houses Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii Na Kihapai Nani Lua ʻOle O Edena a Me Elenale ( The Beautiful Unequaled Gardens of Eden and of Elenale ), Hawaiian cotton quilt, before 1918, Honolulu Museum of Art
Typical Pathway at the Gardens HAWAII TROPICAL BOTANICAL GARDEN, a beautiful garden in a valley on the ocean. The Hawaii Tropical Botanical Garden is a nonprofit 17-acre (6.9 ha) botanical garden and nature preserve located on the 4-mile (6.4 km) scenic route off of Route 19 at 27-717 Old Māmalahoa Highway, Pāpa'ikou, Hawaii (island), Hawaii.
Hālau Kū Māna is an accredited Hawaiian culture-based public charter school founded in 1999. [15] As one of the foundations of the Hawaiian resistance, aloha ʻāina has been one of the ethical practices that educators in Hālau Kū Māna have sought to base their curriculum and educational programs.
Dorothy Thompson, a co-founder of the Merrie Monarch Festival, an annual week-long hula festival in Hilo, Hawaii, described Luahine as follows: "Her dance was her life and her story itself. 'Io was such a beautiful person, an extraordinary dancer. She seemed like she would go into a trance. And her movements were like nobody else's." [7]