aloha.
Good wishes, love, compassion, peacefulness and affection.
Meaning & usage
Good wishes, love, compassion, peacefulness and affection.
When I got back to Hawaii, a feeling of aloha flooded me, and my anxiety vanished.
An utterance of aloha (see Interjection, below).
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Austronesian *qaləp Proto-Austronesian *qaləpan Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qaləpan Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *qaləpan Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *qaləpan Proto-Oceanic *qalopan Proto-Polynesian *qarofa Hawaiian alohabor. English aloha Borrowed from Hawaiian aloha (“love”), from Proto-Polynesian *qarofa. Doublet of aroha and aropa.
Expressing good wishes when greeting or parting from someone; hello; goodbye.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Austronesian *qaləp Proto-Austronesian *qaləpan Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qaləpan Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *qaləpan Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *qaləpan Proto-Oceanic *qalopan Proto-Polynesian *qarofa Hawaiian alohabor. English aloha Borrowed from Hawaiian aloha (“love”), from Proto-Polynesian *qarofa. Doublet of aroha and aropa.
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