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say it: uh-LOH-hah
aloha is a noun meaning "an acknowledgment that can be used to say hello or goodbye (aloha is Hawaiian and ciao is Italian)". It carries one recorded sense.
an acknowledgment that can be used to say hello or goodbye (aloha is Hawaiian and ciao is Italian)
Italy
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for aloha come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.