DY: It’s close enough, depending on your vowelization. The story I heard was that someone once brought it as a Limud Z’chus to R’ Shlomo Zalman for those who mispronounce the word “Elo-ah” in Hallel as “Eloha” that since “Aloha” has basically the same meaning as “Shalom” that it would be a legitimate translation for Shem Hashem. R’ Shlomo Zalman said that’s not right because “Aloha” doesn’t count as a Shem Hashem. Now, that means that it both doesn’t count as a translation and doesn’t count as the Shem being said directly.
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