Oʻahu

See also: Oahu

English

Proper noun

Oʻahu

1. Alternative form of Oahu.
   • 2005, John R[alph] K[ukeakalani] Clark, Beaches of Oʻahu (A Latitude 20 Book), revised edition, Honolulu, Haw.: University of Hawaiʻi Press, →ISBN, back cover:

     This essential guide to Oʻahu’s beaches begins at Ala Moana Regional Park and continues counter-clockwise around the island—the traditional route most visitors and residents take when touring the island’s scenic points.

   • 2010, Patrick Vinton Kirch, “Sources for Reconstructing Contact-Era Hawaiʻi”, in How Chiefs Became Kings: Divine Kingship and the Rise of Archaic States in Ancient Hawaiʻi, Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, →ISBN, chapter 2 (Hawaiian Archaic States on the Eve of European Contact), page 31:

     Samuel Kamakau, a bit younger than [David] Malo (he was born in 1815), was also a Lahainaluna student and his family traced its descent from the priestly class of Oʻahu and Kauaʻi.

   • 2019, Sumner La Croix, “Voyaging and Settlement”, in Hawaiʻi: Eight Hundred Years of Political and Economic Change, Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 30:

     Palynology—the science of plant pollen, spores, microscopic plankton, and their fossils—has made a particularly important contribution to our understanding of how and when the first generations of Oʻahu people transformed their environment as they settled the island.

Hawaiian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /oˈʔa.hu/, [oˈʔɐ.hu]

Proper noun

Oʻahu

1. Oahu (an island in Hawaii, United States)

Descendants

• → English: Oahu, Oʻahu