monoʻi

Tahitian

Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic *manoŋi (compare with Samoan manogi, Tongan manongi both “fragrant”),

Noun

monoʻi

1. perfume, fragrance

Noun

• → French: monoï
• → English: monoi

Further reading

• Yves Lemaître, Lexique du tahitien contemporain (Current Tahitian lexicon), 1995.
• “monoʻi” in Dictionnaire en ligne Tahitien/Français (Online Tahitian–French Dictionary), by the Tahitian Academy.