pahu
English
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Etymology
[edit]From Hawaiian pahu (“drum, box”).
Noun
[edit]pahu (plural pahus)
- A traditional drum of Polynesia, made from a single log and covered with sharkskin.
Anagrams
[edit]Albanian
[edit]Noun
[edit]pahu
- inflection of pah:
Hawaiian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Proto-Polynesian *pasu₁ (“drum”). Cognate with Tahitian pahu and Māori pahū.[1][2][3]
Noun
[edit]pahu
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → English: pahu
Etymology 2
[edit]From Proto-Polynesian *pasu₂ (“thrust into, impel towards”).
Verb
[edit]pahu(transitive)
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Pukui, Mary Kawena; Elbert, Samuel H. (1986), “pahu”, in Hawaiian Dictionary, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, →ISBN, pages 300–1
- ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “pasu.1b”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551–9
- ^ M. Ross, A. Pawley, M. Osmond, editors (1998), The Lexicon of Proto-Oceanic[1], volume 1: Material Culture, Australian National University, →ISBN, page 110.
Jumaytepeque
[edit]Noun
[edit]pahu
References
[edit]- Chris Rogers, The Use and Development of the Xinkan Languages
Māori
[edit]Noun
[edit]pahu
- alternative form of pahū
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