ʻEwa
Hawaiian edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Ultimately from Hebrew חַוָּה (khava) .
Proper noun edit
ʻEwa
- (biblical) Eve (wife of Adam)
- a female given name originating from the Bible
Etymology 2 edit
ʻewa (“crooked, unjust”)
Proper noun edit
ʻEwa
- Ewa (a locality west of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, United States, used as a direction in Honolulu)
- ʻAʻole au i hele ma ʻEwa ― I did not go in the direction of ʻEwa.
References edit
- Ka Baibala Hemolele
- Mary Kawena Pukui - Samuel H. Elbert, Hawaiian Dictionary, University of Hawaii Press 1986, page 42
- Hawaii State Archives: Marriage records Ewa (in the old orthography) occurs in 19th-century marriage records as the only name (mononym) of 6 women and 2 men.