vahine

Borrowed from Tahitian vahine (“woman”).

vahine (plural vahines)

1. Synonym of wahine (“a Polynesian woman”)

• have in, heavin'

Borrowed from Tahitian vahine (“woman”), from Proto-Polynesian *fafine.

vahine

1. female

• matu'a vahine
• poki vahine

From Proto-Polynesian *fafine.

vahine

1. woman

• → English: vahine
• → French: vahiné
• → Rapa Nui: vahine

• “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.