Noun: hapa
Sample Sentences
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It's what my fiancé and I call ourselves, and how we think of the children we might have: second-generation hapas.
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But as the term grows in popularity, so does debate over how it should be used. Some people argue that hapa is a slur and should be retired. [2016 August 8, Akemi Johnson, “Who Gets To Be 'Hapa'?”, in NPR, archived from the original on 19 Apr 2021:]
Nouns inflected like hapa
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Middle English half
3. English halfbor.
4. Hawaiian hapabor.
5. English hapa
6. Borrowed from Hawaiian hapa, from English half. Doublet of half. See: English Nouns '
half'.