English words from Samoan
- SamoaA kind of cookie with coconut flavoring, often sold by Girl Scouts.
- maoThe ma'oma'o, Gymnomyza samoensis, a large passerine bird native to Samoa.
- taupoIn Samoan culture, a ceremonial virgin, the daughter of a village chief.
- talaThe currency of Samoa, divided into 100 sene.
- uce(chiefly among Samoan-Americans) Brother (a male comrade or friend). Similar in use to bro.
- ApiaThe capital city of Samoa.
- aigaA Samoan extended family.
- maluA culturally significant tattoo on a Samoan woman's upper leg.
- seneSenna.
- mataiA Samoan chief.
- UpoluAn island of Samoa.
- aumagaA Samoan social class of untitled men, mostly young, who perform most of the heavy labour and have ceremonial responsibilities.
- fa'afafineA Samoan whose gender is neither male nor female, being biologically male but preferring (or being raised for) traditionally female duties and tasks.
- laupeleA flowering plant in the mallow family, commonly grown for its edible leaves, Abelmoschus manihot.
- lavalavaAn everyday item of clothing traditionally worn by Polynesians and other Oceanic peoples, consisting of a single rectangular cloth worn as a skirt, secured around the waist by an overhand knotting of the upper corners.
- manualiiA bird, the purple swamphen.
- manumaThe many-colored fruit dove, Ptilinopus perousii.
- manusinaA bird, the white tern or common fairy tern.
- manutagiPtilinopus porphyraceus, the crimson-crowned fruit dove.
- matalafiA shrub, of species Psychotria insularum, used for medicine and found in American Samoa, Niue, Samoa, and Tonga.
- palagiA white person; a Caucasian.
- papalagiIn Fiji, Tonga, Samoa and New Zealand, a white person; a palagi.
- pisupoCanned corned beef.
- saofaiIn Samoan culture, the ceremony in which the title of matai (chief) is bestowed.
- Savai'iThe largest island in Samoa.
- skuxstud, player, womaniser
- tanoaA bowl for serving kava.