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ʻOhana is a Hawaiian term meaning "family" (in an extended sense of the term, including blood-related, adoptive or intentional). The term is cognate with Māori kōhanga , meaning "nest". The root word ʻohā refers to the root or corm of the kalo , or taro plant (the staple "staff of life" in Hawaii), which Kanaka Maoli consider to be their ...
In the Hawaiian lexicon, ohana is a sensibility, a way of thinking that means family, belonging, community and so much more — solace in a time of calamity. It is a unifying principle in an ...
Ohana is the sense of family in Hawaiian culture (spelled with an ʻokina as ʻohana). Ohana may also refer to: "Ohana" (Hawaii Five-0), an episode of the television series Hawaii Five-0; Ohana by Hawaiian, a subsidiary of Hawaiian Airlines; Ohana Hotels and Resorts, a Honolulu-based hotel chain owned by Outrigger Hotels & Resorts
Ohana (Hebrew: אוחנה) is a Hebrew-language surname. There are two suggested origins of this and similar Jewish-Berber surnames. There are two suggested origins of this and similar Jewish-Berber surnames.
It is also a version of a Hebrew name from the root ḥ-n-n meaning "favour" or "grace", a Kurdish name meaning hope (هانا), a Persian name meaning flower (حَنا) and an Arabic name meaning "bliss" (هَناء). As a Japanese name, it is usually translated as flower (花). In Korean, it means the number one (하나). In Hawaiian, "Hana ...
Hānai is a term used in the Hawaiian culture that refers to the informal adoption of one person by another. [1] It can be used as an adjective, such as "hānai child," or as a verb, to hānai someone into the family.
Aloha ʻĀina, which literally means "love of the land", [1] is a central idea of Native Hawaiian thought, cosmology and culture. Aloha ʻāina brings a perspective that pervades many aspects of life. Its ecological and cultural orientations are founded upon a sense of being connected to all living things. This mutuality between all things ...
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