what is kahuna in hawaiian
According to Lorrin Andrews, author of the first Hawaiian dictionary published in 1865, kahuna is a contraction of kahu (to cook, especially in an earth oven) and ana (a particle that adds ing to a word).So the base meaning by this idea is a cooking..o I am kahu to members of my organization who want to call me by a title, Dr. King to those who want to acknowledge my doctorate in psychology, and simply Serge to the rest of the world. I have Hawaiian names as well, but I honor my birth parents by publicly using the name they gave me.