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Meaning of hawái




Danilo Enrique Noreña Benítez

hawái
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Name of a Pacific Archipelago, which since 1959 is a State of the Union (United States). They were formerly known as the Sandwich Islands. Name of the largest of the islands of this same archipelago. Name of a locality in Anjaw District, Arunachal Pradesh state, India. Name of a song by Maluma.

  




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It is a U.S. island state in the Pacific Ocean. The name given to the islands by the Englishman James Cook was Sandwich, as a tribute to his patron John Montagu, Earl of Sandwich; but in the nineteenth century they regained their local name Hawai'i, which is supposed to be derived from the protopolinesio hawaiki ("land of the gods [by volcanoes]") or perhaps from the name of their mythical discoverer Hawai'iloa.

  



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