lavalava

See also: lava-lava

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Samoan lava-lava.

Pronunciation
  • Rhymes: -ɑːvə

Noun

lavalava (plural lavalavas or lavalava)

  1. An everyday item of clothing traditionally worn by Polynesians and other Oceanic peoples, consisting of a single rectangular cloth worn as a skirt, secured around the waist by an overhand knotting of the upper corners.
    • 1997, Michel Picard; Robert Everett Wood, Tourism, ethnicity, and the state in Asian and Pacific societies:
      Some tourists buy Samoan identity merchandise as novelties, but most prefer sloganless items such as printed lavalavas.

Samoan

Noun

lavalava

  1. Alternative form of lava-lava
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