alanui — meaning and pronunciation
Pronounced /AH-lah-NOO-ee/ — syllables: AH · lah · NOO · ee
Meaning
Road, street, path. A wide way leading from one place to another, especially one with a specially prepared surface which vehicles can use.
How to pronounce alanui
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 alanui mean?
Road, street, path. A wide way leading from one place to another, especially one with a specially prepared surface which vehicles can use.
How do you pronounce alanui?
alanui is pronounced /AH-lah-NOO-ee/ — broken into syllables: AH · lah · NOO · ee. Each vowel in Hawaiian is sounded separately, and the ʻokina (ʻ) is a glottal stop, like the pause in "uh-oh".
Is alanui a noun?
Yes — alanui is classified as a noun in ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi, within the Places 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.