What does lāʻau mean in Hawaiian?
Lāʻau is a plant or tree, and also medicine — lāʻau lapaʻau is Hawaiian herbal healing, a practice with its own lineage of teachers.
Say it LAH-ow. 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”. A vowel with a line over it (kahakō) is held a little longer. The pronunciation guide covers the rules.
On this site lāʻau 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 tree.