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Gender Feminine
Usage Tahitian, Hawaiian, Literature
Meaning & History
Derived from Tahitian te meaning "the" and hani meaning "darling". This was used for a character in the novel Mutiny on the Bounty (1932) by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall. It has been used occasionally in the English-speaking world due to the influence of the novel, as well as its 1935 film adaptation.