Ohana 170231 223852834 2008-07-06T04:12:10Z CocaCola58204 233163 :''For other uses, including the football player, see [[Ohana (disambiguation)]].'' Part of Hawaiian culture, '''{{okina}}ohana''' means [[family]] in an extended sense of the term including blood-related, adoptive or intentional. It emphasizes that family and friends are bound together and members must cooperate and remember one another. The term is [[cognate]] with (and its usage is similar to) the [[New Zealand]] [[Māori]] term [[whānau]]. In Hawaiian, the word is {{okina}}ohana with the leading inverted apostrophe ({{okina}}) indicating a glottal stop or [[okina|‘okina]]. The root word {{okina}}ohā refers to the root or corm of the kalo, or taro plant (the staple "staff of life" in Hawaii), which [[Kanaka Maoli]] consider to be their cosmological ancestor. In contemporary Hawaiian life, an "{{okina}}ohana unit" is a part of a house or a separate structure on the same lot that may contain a relative but which may not be rented to the general public. ==In popular culture== {{okina}}Ohana is one of the main themes of the movie ''[[Lilo & Stitch]]'' ("{{okina}}Ohana means family and family means nobody gets left behind. Or forgotten."). ==References== *Wight, K. 1997. ''Illustrated Hawaiian Dictionary,'' The Bess Press. *City&County of Honolulu 2003. ''Land Use Ordinance'' [[Category:Hawaii culture]] [[Category:Hawaiian words and phrases]] {{hawaii-stub}}