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.
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