Drawn from the opening lines of the Hawaiian creation chant, the Kumulipo, kāhuli was selected by the University of Hawaiʻi ...

University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Department of English selected “analogue” as its 2025 Word of the Year for Hawaiʻi. “Analogue” ...

If you’re planning a trip to Hawaiʻi, you’ll likely hear more than just the sound of crashing waves and strumming ʻukulele. You’ll hear words that carry the voice of a place older than the United ...

The Hawaiian Word of the Day is ma'o. Ma'o is the Hawaiian word for several species of hibiscus, both native and non-native. Most commonly, ma'o refers to the native cotton, a small shrub which bears ...

The Hawaiian Word of the Day is poke. Usually the word poke refers to cubed pieces of raw fish tossed in some sort of salt or shoyu sauce, but really, the word poke means to slice, or cut crosswise ...

Some Native Hawaiians disapprove of the name of a movie filmed and set in Hawaii, saying that titling it "Aloha" is a disrespectful misappropriation of culture and simplifies a word that's rich with ...

The 2025 Hawaiian Word of the Year selected by the UH Hilo Ka Haka ʻUla o Keʻelikōlani, College of Hawaiian Language, is ...

For the 18 years I worked in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin’s newsroom, we never used diacritical marks – the okina and kahako – in Hawaiian words. When I moved to The Honolulu Advertiser in 2004, we used ...

Pilina is an indigenous Hawaiian word, or concept, that describes our deep interconnectedness. Harvard Clinical Psychology Fellow Jo Qina'au guides us through a contemplation of our profound ...