Ohana
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- For other uses, see Ohana (disambiguation).
Part of Hawaiian culture, ohana means family in an extended sense of the term. It emphasizes that family is bound together and members must cooperate and remember one another. The term has the same origins as (and usage is similar to) the New Zealand Maori term "whanau".
In Hawaiian, the word is "‘ohana" with the leading inverted apostrophe indicating a glottal stop or "‘okina."
In contemporary Hawaiian life, an "ohana unit" is a part of a house that may contain a grandparent or may be rented to the general public. Ohana is one of the themes of Lilo & Stitch and is mentioned occasionally in Baywatch.