What does ʻōnohi mean in Hawaiian?
ʻŌnohi is the eyeball, and by extension the centre of anything. ʻŌnohi o ka lā is a small rainbow fragment, the eye of the sun.
Say it oh-NOH-hee. 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”. A vowel with a line over it (kahakō) is held a little longer. The pronunciation guide covers the rules.
On this site ʻōnohi is part of 1 names: 0 begin with it, 1 end with it. They split evenly between girls and boys, and all of them sit in the group of Hawaiian names meaning light.