What does kaua mean in Hawaiian?
Kaua is war or battle. It sits inside a number of chiefly names, including Kalākaua, where it reads as the day of battle.
Say it KOW-ah. Every vowel is pronounced, and the capitalized syllable takes the stress. The pronunciation guide covers the rules.
On this site kaua is part of 1 names: 0 begin with it, 1 end with it. Most are boy names, and all of them sit in the group of Hawaiian names meaning warrior.