wahine
noun
- Māori woman or wife
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /wɑːˈhiːnɪ/ / /wɑˈhineɪ/ / /wɑˈhini/
noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Māori wahine (“woman”), from Proto-Polynesian *fafine.
- A Polynesian or Maori woman.
“I wanna be with all the kanes and wahines that I knew long ago”
“One Way Wahine was the next beach movie, after Ride the Wild Surf, to be filmed on the sands of Hawaii. It was marketed to the teenage audience as a beach movie but it is a more serious look at the seamy side of Hawaii and the surf bums and one way wahines who go there to make a quick buck.”
- A female surfer.