ʻAhaʻi ʻōlelo — meaning and pronunciation
Pronounced /ah-HAH-ee oh-LEH-loh/ — syllables: ah · HAH · ee · oh · LEH · loh
Meaning
To gossip, tell tales. While an action, it's often driven by emotions like jealousy, curiosity, or malice.
How to pronounce ʻAhaʻi ʻōlelo
Hawaiian vowels are always sounded separately. A kahakō (line above a vowel) lengthens it; the ʻokina (ʻ) is a glottal stop, like the pause in “uh-oh”.
Frequently asked
What does ʻAhaʻi ʻōlelo mean?
To gossip, tell tales. While an action, it's often driven by emotions like jealousy, curiosity, or malice.
How do you pronounce ʻAhaʻi ʻōlelo?
ʻAhaʻi ʻōlelo is pronounced /ah-HAH-ee oh-LEH-loh/ — broken into syllables: ah · HAH · ee · oh · LEH · loh. Each vowel in Hawaiian is sounded separately, and the ʻokina (ʻ) is a glottal stop, like the pause in "uh-oh".
Is ʻAhaʻi ʻōlelo a phrase?
Yes — ʻAhaʻi ʻōlelo is classified as a phrase in ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi, within the Emotions category.
Where does this definition come from?
Definitions and pronunciations on hawaiian-words.com are drawn from the authoritative Pukui-Elbert Hawaiian Dictionary (rev. ed. 1986), the standard scholarly reference for ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi.