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aloha, int. (n.)|əˈləʊə, ɑːˈləʊhə|
Also aroha.
[Hawaiian aloha, Maori aroha love, affection, pity.]
1. Hawaii and S. Pacific. A greeting or valediction: ‘welcome’, ‘greetings’, ‘farewell’, etc. Also aloha ‘oe [‘oe (to) you], and as n.
[1798G. Vancouver Voy. N. Pacific Ocean II. iii. v. 139 The man instantly replied ‘arrowhah,’ meaning that he pitied him.] 1825W. Ellis Jrnl. Tour Hawaii v. 109 When they designed to leave us, they would..give us their parting aroha as we passed. 1847H. Bingham Residence Twenty-one Years Sandwich Islands vi. 135, I saluted him with a kiss and a hearty aloha. 1898M. H. Krout Hawaii & Revolution xxv. 317, I was greeted with friendly smiles and gestures and the kindly ‘Aloha’. 1914R. Brooke Let. Mar. (1968) 566 The anchor's up & the folk on shore sing ‘Good-bye, my flenni!’ or ‘Aloha oe!’ 1937D. & H. Teilhet Feather Cloak Murders i. 12 Jeffrey Preacher raised his glass. ‘Aloha! Better have one with us.’ 1963Times 31 Dec. 12/7 Aloha.., a word that survives from old Hawaii..means both farewell and greeting, friendship and love, hope and promise. So, as the English church bells ring out, I shall be thinking ‘Plenty Aloha, 1964’. 1972J. Potter Going West 38 Half an hour out of Honolulu the arrival of yet another printed form roused him... Midnight local time and a temperature of seventy-four degrees. ‘Aloha,’ the airport tower announced in neon lights..Aloha meant welcome. 1978Islands Aug. 13 Please offer my warmest aroha to Miss Gilhooly, and thank her for looking after you so well.
2. attrib. passing into adj., esp. as aloha shirt (see quot. 1951). Cf. Hawaiian shirt s.v. Hawaiian a. II. Chiefly U.S.
1918–19T. Eaton & Co. Catal. Fall & Winter 369/1 Hawaiian Records... Aloha Oe Waltzes. 1951Amer. Speech XXVI. 19 Aloha..is often heard in compounds such as aloha party or aloha shirt—for a bright sport garment now winning favor in continental United States. ‘Aloha Week’ is the annual gala season about the end of October. 1954Ellery Queen's Mystery Mag. Oct. 9/2 David was dressed casually in a red aloha shirt. 1967M. Davis Strange Corner (1968) vi. 50 She chose jade and ivory trinkets, teatimers, dolls and aloha shirts. 1972J. Potter Going West 48 Tourist housewives..wore Polynesian shifts in patterns matching their husbands' Aloha shirts... Open cars passed... The number plates proclaimed Hawaii the Aloha State. |