What is Luana in Hawaiian?
Luana is Luana in Hawaiian, said loo-AH-nah.
How Luana became Luana
Luana came through untouched. Every letter in it is already a Hawaiian letter, so there was nothing to swap and nothing to add, which is why the English and Hawaiian spellings match.
Luana as a Hawaiian name
Luana is not only a borrowed spelling. It reads as Hawaiian in its own right, meaning “content, relaxed, to enjoy oneself”, and it is given as a girl's name in Hawaiʻi today. Its own page has the full meaning, the word it is built from, and names that go with it.
Luana is also a Hawaiian word: luana means “to be at leisure”.
How to say Luana
Say it loo-AH-nah, leaning on AH, sounding every vowel: u as “oo”, a as in “father”. The pronunciation guide covers the whole system.