What does kahiau mean in Hawaiian?
Kahiau is giving wholeheartedly without expecting anything back, and without making the recipient feel indebted. It is one of the words Hawaiian keeps that English has no single equivalent for.
Say it kah-hee-OW. Every vowel is pronounced, and the capitalized syllable takes the stress. The pronunciation guide covers the rules.
On this site kahiau 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 gift.