luau

English
Performers at a commercial luau

Alternative forms
  • lūʻau

Etymology

From Hawaiian lūʻau. Replaced earlier paina (from pāʻina) and ahaaina (from ʻahaʻaina).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈlu.aʊ/

Noun

luau (plural luaus or luau)

  1. An elaborate Hawaiian feast featuring traditional foods and entertainment.
    • 2012, Julia Flynn Siler, Lost Kingdom, Grove Press, published 2012, page 13:
      Other Americans and Europeans also made their way into court, drawn by its brilliant pageants and lavish lū‘au, or feasts.
    • 2014 July 7, Hermione Hoby, “Mike Myers: why I made a film about supermensch Shep Gordon”, in The Guardian‎:
      MM: No secrets for him because he's the king of Hawaii. And so he said, "Do you want to come to a luau with Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger and Whoopi Goldberg?"

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See also

Further reading
  • lūʻau on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Pukui, Mary Kawena; Samuel H. Elbert (1986), Hawaiian Dictionary, Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, →ISBN, p. 214

Portuguese

Noun

luau m (plural luaus)

  1. luau (elaborate Hawaiian feast)

Romanian

Verb

luau

  1. third-person plural imperfect of lua
    ei luau ― they took
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