vahine

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Tahitian vahine (“woman”). === Noun === vahine (plural vahines) Synonym of wahine (“a Polynesian woman”). === Anagrams === have in, heavin' == Rapa Nui == === Etymology === Borrowed from Tahitian vahine (“woman”), from Proto-Polynesian *fafine. === Adjective === vahine female ==== Derived terms ==== matu'a vahine poki vahine == Tahitian == === Etymology === From Proto-Polynesian *fafine. === Noun === vahine woman ==== Descendants ==== → English: vahine → French: vahiné → Rapa Nui: vahine === References === “vahine” in John Davies, A Tahitian and English dictionary, with introductory remarks on the Polynesian language, and a short grammar of the Tahitian dialect: with an appendix containing a list of foreign words used in the Tahitian Bible, in commerce, etc., with the sources from whence they have been derived, 1851, page 308.