What does hilinaʻi mean in Hawaiian?
Hilinaʻi is trust with weight in it — to lean on someone, to depend and be held. The image is physical before it is emotional.
Say it hee-lee-NAH-ee. Every vowel is pronounced, and the capitalized syllable takes the stress. The ʻokina (ʻ) is a short catch in the voice, like the break in “uh-oh”. The pronunciation guide covers the rules.
On this site hilinaʻi is part of 1 names: 0 begin with it, 0 end with it, and 1 carry it elsewhere. They split evenly between girls and boys, and all of them sit in the group of Hawaiian names meaning love.