Part of Hawaiian culture, ohana means family

Family

In human context, a family is a group of people affiliated by consanguinity, affinity, or co-residence. In most societies it is the principal institution for the socialization of children...

 in an extended sense of the term, including blood-related, adoptive or intentional. It emphasizes that family are bound together and members must cooperate and remember one another. The term is cognate

Cognate

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 with (and its usage is similar to) the New Zealand

New Zealand

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 Māori term

Maori language

Māori or te reo Māori , commonly te reo , is the language of the indigenous population of New Zealand, the Māori. It has the status of an official language in New Zealand...

 whānau

Whanau

Whānau , is a Māori-language word for extended family, now increasingly entering New Zealand English, particularly in official publications.In Māori society, the whānau is also a political unit, below the level of hapū and iwi, and the word itself also has other meanings: as a verb meaning to give...

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In actual Hawaiian culture the term ohana is strictly used for blood relations. Non-familial groupings always instead use the word "hui".

In Hawaiian

Hawaiian language

The Hawaiian language is a Polynesian language that takes its name from Hawaii, the largest island in the tropical North Pacific archipelago where it developed. Hawaiian, along with English, is an official language of the state of Hawaii...

, the word is ohana with the leading inverted apostrophe indicating a glottal stop or ‘okina

Okina

The okina, also called by several other names , is a unicameral consonant letter used within the Latin script to mark the phonetic glottal stop, as it is used in many Polynesian languages.- Geographic names in the United States :...

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The root word ohā refers to the root or corm of the kalo, or taro

Taro

Taro is a common name for the corms and tubers of several plants in the family Araceae . Of these, Colocasia esculenta is the most widely cultivated, and is the subject of this article. More specifically, this article describes the 'dasheen' form of taro; another variety is called eddoe.Taro is...

 plant (the staple "staff of life" in Hawaii), which Kanaka Maoli consider to be their cosmological ancestor.

In contemporary Hawaiian economic and regulatory practice, an "ohana unit" is a part of a house or a separate structure on the same lot that may contain a relative but which may not be rented to the general public.

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• Wight, K. 1997. Illustrated Hawaiian Dictionary, The Bess Press.
• City & County of Honolulu 2003. Land Use Ordinance
• Whitney, Scott 2001 Inventing 'Ohana Honolulu Magazine, September, 2001, pp. 42–45
• 2010 www.ohana.ro, Copii si parinti | Ghid practic – Ohana