Aole (adverb) (Hawaii)
ah-oh-ley
no; not at all.
Aole comes from the Hawaiian interjectionʿaʿole, which can mean “no, not, never; to be none, to have none.”ʿAʿole takes on various forms in Hawaiian, such as aʿohe, ʿole, and aʿoe, in order to be harmonious with the surrounding sounds.
Example sentences
“I ask him if he was going that way? and he replied ‘Aole’.”
