What does naʻau mean in Hawaiian?
Naʻau is the intestines, and it is where Hawaiian locates thought and feeling. Naʻauao, the enlightened gut, is the word for wisdom and for education; a person of good character is naʻau pono.
Say it NAH-ow. 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 naʻau is part of 1 names: 1 begin with it, 0 end with it. They split evenly between girls and boys, and all of them sit in the group of Hawaiian names meaning wisdom.