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Hawaiian Word of the Day: July 6th

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Hapa is most often used in English conversation to describe something that is mixed or part of something. And although it comes from the English word “half,” it means portion or part. We hear hapa used in hapa Hawaiʻi for part Hawaiian, or hapa haole for part foreign.

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