What does lama mean in Hawaiian?
Lama is a torch or lamp, and by extension enlightenment. It is also the name of a native hardwood, the lama tree, whose wood was used in hula and healing structures.
The tree sense is not incidental: lama wood was placed in the hālau hula because the name itself means light, and the pun was the point. Hawaiian treats that kind of wordplay as meaningful rather than decorative.
Say it LAH-mah. Every vowel is pronounced, and the capitalized syllable takes the stress. The pronunciation guide covers the rules.
On this site lama is part of 3 names: 1 begin with it, 2 end with it. They split evenly between girls and boys, and all of them sit in the group of Hawaiian names meaning light.