Wahine, the Hawaiian and Māori word for ''woman'', can mean:
People
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Alapaiwahine
Alapaiwahine was a Princess of the Island of Hawaii and great-grandmother of King David Kalākaua and Queen Lydia Liliuokalani. She was a ''Naha'' chiefess: the product of a rare father and daughter marriage uncommon in Hawaiian history. Biograp ...
, Princess of the Island of Hawaii
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Kamauliwahine
Kamauliwahine (''wahine'' = “woman”) was Aliʻi nui of Molokai, Chiefess of Molokaʻi.''Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History''. Vol. 6.
Kamauliwahine was the only known child of Lanileo and Ch ...
, “queen” (''Aliʻi Nui'') of Molokai
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Keākealaniwahine
Keakealaniwahine (c. 1640-1695), was a High Chiefess and ruler ''Aliʻi Nui'' of Hawaii island.
Life
Her mother was Queen Keakamahana, monarch of Hawaii. Her father (and mother's cousin) was Chief Iwikau-i-kaua of Oahu. She became ruler of the is ...
, a High Chiefess of the Island of Hawaii
Goddess
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Kihe-Wahine, a Polynesian goddess
Government
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Mana Wahine Te Ira Tangata
Mana Wahine Te Ira Tangata was a small and short-lived political party in New Zealand. It was established by Alamein Kopu, a member of the New Zealand Parliament who had left her original party (the Alliance (New Zealand political party), Alliance ...
, a New Zealand political party from 1998 to 2001
Sports
* A female
surfer
* A member of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa's ladies sports teams, the
Hawaii Rainbow Wahine
Vessels
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''Wahine'' (ship), any of several ships named ''Wahine''
** (1913–51), a New Zealand inter-island ferry that also served in World War I and World War II
** , a 1966-built New Zealand inter-island passenger ferry that foundered in Wellington Harbour in 1968
See also
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Vahine no te vi'' (Woman of the Mango), a painting by Paul Gauguin
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