Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Oahu.
Samuel Kamakau, a bit younger than [David] Malo (he was born in 1815), was also a Lahainaluna student and his family traced its descent from the priestly class of Oʻahu and Kauaʻi.
2010, Patrick Vinton Kirch, “Sources for Reconstructing Contact-Era Hawaiʻi”, in How Chiefs Became Kings: Divine Kingship and the Rise of Archaic States in Ancient Hawaiʻi, Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, →ISBN, chapter 2 (Hawaiian Archaic States on the Eve of European Contact), page 312 more examples
This essential guide to Oʻahu’s beaches begins at Ala Moana Regional Park and continues counter-clockwise around the island—the traditional route most visitors and residents take when touring the island’s scenic points.
2005, John R[alph] K[ukeakalani] Clark, Beaches of Oʻahu (A Latitude 20 Book), revised edition, Honolulu, Haw.: University of Hawaiʻi Press, →ISBN, back coverPalynology—the science of plant pollen, spores, microscopic plankton, and their fossils—has made a particularly important contribution to our understanding of how and when the first generations of Oʻahu people transformed their environment as they settled the island.
2019, Sumner La Croix, “Voyaging and Settlement”, in Hawaiʻi: Eight Hundred Years of Political and Economic Change, Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 30
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Oʻahu. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/O%CA%BBahu
“Oʻahu.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/O%CA%BBahu. Accessed November 5, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Oʻahu,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/O%CA%BBahu.
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