What does hoʻokipa mean in Hawaiian?
Hoʻokipa is hospitality — receiving a guest properly, which in Hawaiian practice was an obligation rather than a courtesy. The beach on Maui known for windsurfing carries the name.
Say it hoh-oh-KEE-pah. 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 hoʻokipa 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.