What does wanaʻao mean in Hawaiian?
Wanaʻao is daybreak, the moment light arrives. Hawaiian has several words for stages of dawn, and this one marks the first.
Say it vah-nah-AH-oh. 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 wanaʻao 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 light.