Definition of "kanaka" []

• A person of Hawaiian descent. (noun)
• A South Pacific Islander, especially a labourer in Australia or Canada. (noun)

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• "Also, at the moment of delivering each kick, he called the kanaka a black heathen."
• "I aku o Aiwohikupua i kona Kuhina, "Heaha keia e hoi ole mai nei na kanaka a kaua e hoouna aku nei?""
• "Some time he made kanaka plenty cross along him and kanaka want 'm kill m, kanaka he think devil-devil and kanaka he hear that fella mate sing out, Yah!"