What does kāpena mean in Hawaiian?
Kāpena is captain, borrowed from English in the whaling era along with much of the maritime vocabulary.
Say it kah-PEH-nah. Every vowel is pronounced, and the capitalized syllable takes the stress. A vowel with a line over it (kahakō) is held a little longer. The pronunciation guide covers the rules.
On this site kāpena is part of 1 names: 0 begin with it, 0 end with it, and 1 carry it elsewhere. Most are boy names, and all of them sit in the group of Hawaiian names meaning ocean.