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1  why   
ahoana2  why ~ how? What? Used in answering a call. Why? What is the cause of it? It is also an exclamation, as ahoana ary! Well then! It admits of the suffix pronouns and tenses: Ny faty aza ahoako (I care not for, or I trouble not myself about death; death has no fear for me!) ~ Ahoanao izany? (What is that to you?) ~ why? how?
nahoana3  why ~ why?