Tahiti

• Otaheite (obsolete spelling)

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• IPA^(key): /təˈhiːti/, /tɑˈhiːti/

• Audio (General American):

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• Rhymes: -iːti

Tahiti

2. the largest island in French Polynesia.

   Synonyms: George's Island, King George the Third's Island

3. (historical) A former kingdom in Polynesia, Pacific Ocean.

   Synonym: Kingdom of Tahiti

• Tahitian
• Tahiti petrel

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• IPA^(key): [ˈtaɦɪtɪ]
• Rhymes: -ɪtɪ
• Hyphenation: Ta‧hi‧ti

Tahiti n (indeclinable, relational adjective tahitský, demonym Tahiťan, female demonym Tahiťanka)

1. Tahiti (the largest island in French Polynesia)

• “Tahiti”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “Tahiti”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

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• IPA^(key): /ta.i.ti/

Tahiti m

1. Tahiti (the largest island in French Polynesia)

• Tahitien
• tahitien

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• IPA^(key): [taˈhiːti]

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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• Rhymes: -iːti
• Hyphenation: Ta‧hi‧ti

Tahiti n (proper noun, genitive Tahitis or (optionally with an article) Tahiti)

1. Tahiti (the largest island in French Polynesia)

• “Tahiti” in Duden online
• “Tahiti”, in Online-Wortschatz-Informationssystem Deutsch (in German), Mannheim: Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache, 2008–
• “Tahiti” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon

Tahiti

1. Tahiti (the largest island in French Polynesia)

• tahitier
• tahitisk

• Fransk Polynesia

Tahiti

1. Tahiti (the largest island in French Polynesia)

• tahitiar
• tahitisk

• Fransk Polynesia

From Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *tafiti. Cognate with Hawaiian kahiki (“foreign country”), Maori tawhiti (“distant”).

• IPA^(key): /ta.hi.ti/

Tahiti

1. Tahiti (the largest island in French Polynesia)

• Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “TAFITI.1”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551-559