What is Angela in Hawaiian?
Angela is ʻĀnela in Hawaiian, said ah-NEH-lah.
How Angela became ʻĀnela
Hawaiian is written with thirteen letters, so in Angela G fell away. The ʻokina at the front is a consonant in Hawaiian, the catch in the voice before the first vowel.
ʻĀnela as a Hawaiian name
ʻĀnela is not only a borrowed spelling. It reads as Hawaiian in its own right, meaning “angel”, and it is given as a girl's name in Hawaiʻi today. Its own page has the full meaning, the word it is built from, and names that go with it.
ʻĀnela is also a Hawaiian word: ʻānela means “angel”.
How to say ʻĀnela
Say it ah-NEH-lah, leaning on NEH, sounding every vowel: a as in “father”, e as in “bet”. The ʻokina (ʻ) is a catch in the voice, the break in the middle of “uh-oh”. The pronunciation guide covers the whole system.