Hawaii

See also: Hawaií, Hawaiʻi, Hawai'i, and Hawai`i

English

Hawaii in respect to the rest of the United States

Alternative forms

• (also from Hawaiian) Hawaiʻi, Hawai'i, Hawai`i

Etymology

From Hawaiian Hawaiʻi, from Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *Sawaiki (“traditional homeland”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: həwīʹē, IPA^(key): /həˈwaɪ.i/
• (US) enPR: həwīʹ(j)ē, həwäʹ(j)ē, həwŏʹ(j)ē, IPA^(key): /həˈwaɪ(j)i/, /həˈwɑ(j)i/, /həˈwɔ(j)i/, [hʊ̈ˈwaɪ̯(j)i], [hʊ̈ˈwɑ(j)i], [hʊ̈ˈwɔ(j)i]
  • (Hawaii, also) IPA^(key): /həˈvaɪʔi/, /həˈvɑːʔi/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -aɪi
• Hyphenation: Ha‧waii

Proper noun

Hawaii

1. An insular state United States, formerly a territory. Capital: Honolulu.

   Synonyms: Aloha State, Hawaii State, State of Hawaii

   • 2007, Biden, Joe, “Jill”, in Promises to Keep‎^[1], New York: Random House, published 2008, →ISBN, LCCN 2007019603, OCLC 1262796254, page 111:

     I've learned a lot by watching my Democratic colleague from Hawaii Senator Daniel Inouye. He’s a man of uncommon decency. I’ve never seen him demand political loyalty because of party or friendship, and I’ve never known him to go back on his word.

2. An archipelago in the Pacific Ocean between North America and Oceania.

   Synonyms: Hawaiian Islands, Islands of Hawaii, (obsolete) Sandwich Islands

   Hyponyms: Maui, Oahu, Kauai, Molokai, Lanai, Niihau, Kahoolawe

3. (specifically) An island in Hawaii archipelago, Pacific Ocean, of Hawaii County, State of Hawaii, United States. The largest of the Hawaiian Islands.

   Synonyms: (informal) Big Island, Hawaii Island, Island of Hawaii

4. (historical) A former kingdom in the Hawaiian Islands, Pacific Ocean

   Synonyms: Kingdom of Hawaii, Hawaii Kingdom, Hawaiian Kingdom

Usage notes

The standard spelling in the islands is Hawaiʻi, where the ʻ indicates a glottal stop or phonemic glide. However, Hawaii is the official spelling used in the Constitution of the State of Hawaii.

Holonyms

• Polynesia

Derived terms

• Blue Hawaii
• County of Hawaii
• HA
• Hawaiian
• Hawaii County
• Hawaii Island
• Hawaii State
• hawaiite
• Island of Hawaii
• Kingdom of Hawaii
• State of Hawaii

 

Translations

state of the United States

• Amharic: ሃዋይ (haway), ሃዋይኢ (hawayʾi), ሃዋኢ (hawaʾi)
• Arabic: هَاوَاي‎ (hawāy)
• Armenian: Հավայի (Havayi)
• Belarusian: Гава́і pl (Havái)
• Bulgarian: Хава́и pl (Havái)
• Catalan: Hawai m, Hawaii m
• Cherokee: ᎭᏩᏱ (hawayi)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 夏威夷

  Mandarin: 夏威夷 (zh) (Xiàwēiyí), 夏威夷州 (zh) (Xiàwēiyí-zhōu)

• Corsican: Hawaii
• Czech: Havaj (cs) f
• Danish: Hawaii
• Dutch: Hawaï (nl), Hawaii (nl)
• Esperanto: Havajo
• Faroese: Havaii n
• Finnish: Havaiji (fi)
• French: Hawaï (fr) f, Hawaii (fr) f
• Galician: Hawai m
• Georgian: ჰავაი (havai)
• German: Hawaii (de)
• Greek: Χαβάη (el) f (Chavái)
• Hawaiian: Hawaiʻi
• Hebrew: הוואי‎ (he) f (hawāy)
• Hindi: हवाई (hi) (havāī)
• Icelandic: Havaí n
• Irish: Haváí m
• Italian: Hawaii (it) f pl
• Japanese: ハワイ州 (Hawai-shū), 布哇 (Hawai), ハワイ (ja) (Hawai)

• Kannada: ಹವಾಯಿ (havāyi)
• Korean: 하와이 (Hawai)
• Latin: Havaii, Civitas Havaiorum
• Latvian: Havajas f pl
• Macedonian: Хава́и n (Havái)
• Navajo: Hawáai hahoodzo, Kéyah Ałkééʼ Naaznilgo Dah Ndaaʼeełí
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Hawaii (no)

  Nynorsk: Hawaii

• Occitan: Hawaii (oc), Hawaii (oc)
• Persian: هاوائی‎ (fa) (havâi)
• Pohnpeian: Awai
• Polish: Hawaje (pl) pl
• Portuguese: Havaí (pt) m (Brazil), Havai (pt) m (Portugal)
• Russian: Гава́йи (ru) pl (Gaváji)
• Serbo-Croatian: Havaji (sh), Хава́ји
• Slovak: Havaj m
• Slovene: Havaji (sl)
• Spanish: Hawái (es)
• Swedish: Hawaii (sv) n
• Tagalog: Haway, Hawai
• Thai: ฮาวาย (haa-waai)
• Tongan: Hauaiʻi, Vaihi
• Turkish: Hawaii (tr)
• Ukrainian: Гава́йі pl (Haváji)
• Vietnamese: Hawaii, Ha-oai, Hạ Uy Di (dated)
• West Frisian: Hawaï
• Yiddish: האַוואַיִ‎ (havai)

chain of islands

• Arabic: هَاوَاي‎ (hawāy)
• Armenian: Հավայան կղզիներ (Havayan kłziner)
• Catalan: illes Hawaii f pl, illes Hawai f pl
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 夏威夷 (zh) (Xiàwēiyí), 夏威夷群島 (zh), 夏威夷群岛 (zh) (Xiàwēiyí-qúndǎo)

• Chinook Jargon: oihe (owaihi)
• Czech: Havajské ostrovy (cs) m pl
• Esperanto: Havajo
• Faroese: Havaiioyggjar f pl
• Finnish: Havaijisaaret pl
• French: Hawaï (fr) f, les îles Hawaï
• Georgian: ჰავაი (havai), ჰავაის კუნძულები (havais ḳunʒulebi)
• German: Hawaii (de)
• Haitian Creole: Awayi
• Hawaiian: Hawaiʻi
• Hindi: हवाई (hi) (havāī)
• Irish: Oileáin Haváí m pl
• Italian: Hawaii (it) f pl

• Japanese: ハワイ諸島 (ja) (Hawai-shotō), 布哇 (Hawai)
• Latvian: Havaju salas f pl
• Macedonian: Хава́и n (Havái)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Hawaii (no)

  Nynorsk: Hawaii

• Occitan: Hawaii (oc)
• Okanagan: wahú
• Pohnpeian: Awai
• Polish: Hawaje (pl) pl
• Portuguese: Havaí (pt) m (Brazil), Havai (pt) m (Portugal)
• Russian: Гава́йи (ru) pl (Gaváji), Гава́йские острова́ m pl (Gavájskije ostrová)
• Serbo-Croatian: Havajski otoci
• Spanish: Hawái (es)
• Swedish: Hawaiiöarna
• Thai: ฮาวาย (haa-waai)
• Tongan: Hauaiʻi, Vaihi
• Vietnamese: quần đảo Hawaii, quần đảo Ha-oai, quần đảo Hạ Uy Di (dated)

largest of the Hawaiian Islands

• Catalan: Hawai m, Hawaii m
• Czech: Havaj (cs) f
• Esperanto: Havajo
• Faroese: Havaii n
• Finnish: Hawaii (fi)
• French: Hawaï (fr) f
• Galician: Hawai
• Georgian: ჰავაი (havai)
• German: Hawaii (de)
• Hawaiian: Hawaiʻi

• Japanese: ハワイ島 (ja) (Hawai-tō), 布哇 (Hawai)
• Macedonian: Хава́и n (Havái)
• Occitan: Hawaii (oc)
• Portuguese: Havaí (pt) m (Brazil), Havai (pt) m (Portugal)
• Russian: Гава́йи (ru) pl (Gaváji)
• Slovak: Havaj m
• Spanish: Hawái (es)
• Swedish: Hawaii (sv)
• Tagalog: Hawai, Haway
• Thai: ฮาวาย (haa-waai)
• Vietnamese: đảo Hawaii, đảo Ha-oai, đảo Hạ Uy Di (dated)

kingdom

• Hawaiian: Hawaiʻi

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Bulgarian: ^{(please verify)} Хаваи pl (Havai), ^{(please verify)} Хавайски острови pl (Havajski ostrovi)
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} le Hawaii f pl
• Korean: ^{(please verify)} 하와이 (Hawai)

• Lithuanian: ^{(please verify)} Havajai (lt)
• Maltese: ^{(please verify)} il-Ħawaj
• Volapük: ^{(please verify)} Havayuäns (vo)

Further reading

• Hawaii on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Catalan

Alternative forms

• Hawai

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /əˈwaj/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /aˈwaj/

Proper noun

Hawaii m

1. Hawaii (an island)
2. Hawaii (a state of the United States)

Derived terms

• illes Hawaii (“Hawaiian Islands”)

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Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English Hawaii.

Proper noun

Hawaii (genitive Hawaiis)

1. Hawaii (an island)
2. Hawaii (a state of the United States)

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German

Alternative forms

• Hawaï, Hawai

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /haˈvaɪ̯/ (normal)
• IPA^(key): /haˈvaːʔi/ (learned; very rare)

• Audio

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Proper noun

Hawaii n (proper noun, genitive Hawaiis or (optionally with an article) Hawaii)

1. Hawaii (an island)
2. Hawaii (a state of the United States)

Derived terms

• Hawaii-Inseln
• Hawaiier
• Hawaiianer
• hawaiisch
• hawaiianisch

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Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈhɒvɒji]
• Hyphenation: Ha‧waii
• Rhymes: -ji

Proper noun

Hawaii

1. Hawaii (an island)

   Synonym: Hawaii-szigetek

2. Hawaii (a state of the United States)

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	Hawaii	—
accusative	Hawaiit	—
dative	Hawaiinak	—
instrumental	Hawaiival	—
causal-final	Hawaiiért	—
translative	Hawaiivá	—
terminative	Hawaiiig	—
essive-formal	Hawaiiként	—
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	Hawaiiban	—
superessive	Hawaiin	—
adessive	Hawaiinál	—
illative	Hawaiiba	—
sublative	Hawaiira	—
allative	Hawaiihoz	—
elative	Hawaiiból	—
delative	Hawaiiról	—
ablative	Hawaiitól	—
non-attributive possessive - singular	Hawaiié	—
non-attributive possessive - plural	Hawaiiéi	—

Possessive forms of Hawaii
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	Hawaiim	—
2nd person sing.	Hawaiid	—
3rd person sing.	Hawaiija	—
1st person plural	Hawaiink	—
2nd person plural	Hawaiitok	—
3rd person plural	Hawaiijuk	—

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Italian

Etymology

From English Hawaii, from Hawaiian Hawaiʻi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈwaj/, (archaic or literary) /aˈvaj/
• Rhymes: -aj
• Hyphenation: Ha‧wàii

Proper noun

Hawaii f pl (plural only)

1. Hawaii (an island)
2. Hawaii (a state of the United States)

Derived terms

• hawaiano

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Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Hawaii

1. Hawaii (an island)
2. Hawaii (a state of the United States)

Derived terms

• hawaier
• hawaiisk

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Hawaii

1. Hawaii (an island)
2. Hawaii (a state of the United States)

Derived terms

• hawaiar
• hawaiisk

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Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English Hawaii, from Hawaiian Hawaiʻi.

Noun

Hawaii c

1. Hawaii (an island)
2. Hawaii (a state of the United States)
3. Hawaiian pizza