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8-letter words (1 found)

HINAHINA,

4-letter words (8 found)

ANAN,ANNA,HAHA,HAIN,INIA,NAAN,NAIN,NANA,

3-letter words (14 found)

AAH,AHA,AHI,AIA,AIN,ANA,ANI,ANN,HAH,HAN,HIN,INN,NAH,NAN,

2-letter words (8 found)

AA,AH,AI,AN,HA,HI,IN,NA,

You can make 31 words from hinahina according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of hinahina

hinahina

Etymology

Borrowed from Hawaiian hinahina

Noun

hinahina (plural hinahina)

  1. Heliotropium anomalum, a heliotrope of the Pacific Islands.

Hawaiian

Etymology

Reduplication (thus doublet) of hina from Proto-Polynesian *sina (compare with mahina “moon, moonlight” and Samoan māsina), from Proto-Oceanic *sinaʀ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *sinaʀ (compare with Malay sinar, Tagalog sinag), from Proto-Austronesian *siNaʀ.

Noun

hinahina

  1. Heliotropium anomalum, a heliotrope of the Pacific Islands.
  2. Artemisia australis.

Related terms

  • hina

References

Maori

Etymology

Reduplication (thus doublet) of hina from Proto-Polynesian *sina (compare with Samoan māsina and sina), from Proto-Oceanic *sinaʀ (compare with Fijian cina (“to illuminate”)), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *sinaʀ (compare with Malay sinar (“ray, shine”), Tagalog sinag), from Proto-Austronesian *siNaʀ.

Adjective

hinahina

  1. grey-haired

Noun

hinahina

  1. Melicytus ramiflorus.

See also

  • hina
  • māhina

References

Further reading

  • “hinahina” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

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