Etymology

ohana

oha·na
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Today it means: An extended Hawaiian family unit. Full definition →

Hawaiian ʻohana
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The story

  1. Hawaiian · borrowed fromʻohana“family, kin”
  2. English todayohana

Borrowed from Hawaiian ʻohana (“family, kin”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.