ʻEwa
Hawaiian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Ultimately from Hebrew חַוָּה (khava) .
Proper noun
[edit]ʻEwa
- (biblical) Eve (wife of Adam)
- a female given name originating from the Bible
Etymology 2
[edit]ʻewa (“crooked, unjust”)
Proper noun
[edit]ʻEwa
- Ewa (a locality west of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, United States, used as a direction in Honolulu)
- ʻAʻole au i hele ma ʻEwa ― I did not go in the direction of ʻEwa.
References
[edit]- Ka Baibala Hemolele
- Mary Kawena Pukui - Samuel H. Elbert, Hawaiian Dictionary, University of Hawaii Press 1986, page 42
- Hawaii State Archives: Marriage records Ewa (in the old orthography) occurs in 19th-century marriage records as the only name (mononym) of 6 women and 2 men.
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- Hawaiian lemmas
- Hawaiian proper nouns
- haw:Biblical characters
- Hawaiian given names
- Hawaiian female given names
- Hawaiian female given names from the Bible
- haw:Villages in Hawaii, USA
- haw:Villages in the United States
- haw:Places in Hawaii, USA
- haw:Places in the United States
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- haw:Individuals