vahine

See also: vahiné and vähine

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Tahitian vahine (“woman”).

Noun

vahine (plural vahines)

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

Anagrams

Rapa Nui

Etymology

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

Adjective

vahine

  1. female

Derived terms

Tahitian

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *fafine.

Noun

vahine

  1. woman

Descendants

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

References

  • “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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