vahine
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Tahitian vahine (“woman”).
Noun edit
vahine (plural vahines)
- Synonym of wahine (“a Polynesian woman”)
Anagrams edit
Rapa Nui edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Tahitian vahine (“woman”), from Proto-Polynesian *fafine.
Adjective edit
vahine
Derived terms edit
Tahitian edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Polynesian *fafine.
Noun edit
vahine
Descendants edit
References edit
- “vahine” in John Davies, A Tahitian and English dictionary, with introductory remarks on the Polynesian language, and a short grammar of the Tahitian dialect: with an appendix containing a list of foreign words used in the Tahitian Bible, in commerce, etc., with the sources from whence they have been derived, 1851, page 308.