Throughout the Nāaoloa Iāpana blog there will be multiple use of Hawaiian words, a compilation of these words with their translation will be found here.
- alakaʻi: student group leader
- ʻanakē: aunt, “aunty”
- ʻēlemu: buttocks
- haumāna: students
- Iāpana: Japan
- imu: underground oven that cooks using hot rocks and foliage both together providing steam
- kumu: teacher
- kūpuna: elders
- lāʻī: ti-leaf
- mālie: calm, serene
- makana: gift
- mele: song, music
- nāaoloa: clouds reaching the most distant worlds
- ʻono: delicious
- pilina: relationship
- pukealo: facebook page
- pūmaiʻa: banana stalk