Ohana
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:''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''
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[[Category:Hawaiian words and phrases]]
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