Maori
English
Alternative forms
- Māori (preferred usage in Māori text)
- Mäori, Maaori (alternative usage in Māori text when macrons are not available)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmaʊɹi/
- (General New Zealand, non-standard) IPA(key): /ˈmɐːɹiː/, /ˈmɐʉɹiː/, /ˈmoːɹiː/, /ˈmeəɹiː/
- (US, dialectal, non-standard) IPA(key): /meɪˈ(j)ɔːɹi/
- Rhymes: -aʊɹi
Adjective
Maori
- Of, from, or pertaining to the Maori.
Derived terms
Derived terms
- Maori onion
- Maori rat
- Maori title
Translations
of, from, or pertaining to the Māori
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Noun
Maori (countable and uncountable, plural Maori or Maoris)
- (uncountable) The indigenous people of Aotearoa New Zealand.
- (countable) A member of this people.
- (uncountable) The language of these people.
Usage notes
The plural form "Maoris" is sometimes used for members of the people, but "Maori" is preferred, as the term is invariant in Māori.
Derived terms
Translations
indigenous people of Aotearoa New Zealand
member of the Maori people of New Zealand
language of the Māori
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See also
- te reo
- Index of Maori words
- Wiktionary's coverage of Maori terms
Further reading
- Ngata Dictionary (new URL 2005 - it now has macrons, but it is initially unable to recognise them in a Maori-English search)
- ngā aho whakamāori-ā-tuhi (English and Maori Word Translator) formerly from the Knowledge Engineering Laboratory of University of Otāgo, now based in Auckland
- He Kupu Rorohiko - Computer-related terms, by Te Taka Keegan - over 350 Maori-English words and phrases, followed by English-Maori
- Maori - English Dictionary: from Webster's Dictionary - the Rosetta Edition.
- ISO 639-1 code mi, ISO 639-3 code mri
- Ethnologue entry for Maori, mi
- eTexts at the NZ Electronic Text Centre
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