What does māpuana mean in Hawaiian?
Māpuana is scent carried on air from somewhere out of sight. It belongs with moani in the vocabulary of love songs, where a fragrance arriving stands for news of someone absent.
Say it mah-poo-AH-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 māpuana is part of 1 names: 0 begin with it, 0 end with it, and 1 carry it elsewhere. Most are girl names, and all of them sit in the group of Hawaiian names meaning flower.