What does palapala mean in Hawaiian?
Palapala is writing and any written document. The word arrived with literacy in the 1820s, and Hawaiians took to print so quickly that the kingdom had one of the highest literacy rates in the world within a generation.
Say it pah-lah-PAH-lah. Every vowel is pronounced, and the capitalized syllable takes the stress. The pronunciation guide covers the rules.
On this site palapala 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 wisdom.