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Maori

Maori \Ma"o*ri\, prop. n.; pl. Maoris. (Ethnol.) One of the aboriginal inhabitants of New Zealand; also, the original language of New Zealand. -- a. Of or pertaining to the Maoris or to their language.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Maori

"Polynesian inhabitant of New Zealand," 1843, native name, said to mean "of the usual kind."

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Māori

Māori or Maori can refer to:

  • Māori people of New Zealand, or members of that group
  • Māori language, the language of the Māori people
  • Māori culture, the culture of the Māori people
  • Māori mythology, the mythology and the traditions of the Māori people
  • Māori religion, the religion of the Māori people
  • Tā moko, tattoos by Māori
  • Cook Islanders, the Māori of the Cook Islands
  • Cook Islands Māori, the language of the Cook Islanders

Usage examples of "maori".

Seated about the table is a Maori bloke, Hori Hura, what the whites rudely call the Hairy Horror.

Maori attacking the prison was seeking revenge for the death of Hori Hura.

Claire steeped her sciatica in a hot spring, Simon went into his cabin to practise Morse code, and Barbara cooked the midday meal in a hot and primitive kitchen with Huia, the Maori help, in attendance.

Maori glanced across the fire pit at Meriana Kapur, who grinned as she stirred the coals with an iron poker.

Maori honorific, it had to have been one of the newcomers Auntie Kapur had sent to watch over Alex and his team.

I have also come to respect his understanding of the Maori situation with the pakeha intruder.

He is much taken with the pakeha boys, who soon learn Maori and teaches him English, including what Ikey would call a host of lively expressions fit to burn the ears off a church warden.

Maori have forsaken cannibalism and there is often talk that it is still practised in remote regions where the pakeha are afraid to go.

Maori took to their backs, why will the pakeha whaling captain think we have acted badly?

The governor never does anything if a Maori is killed - only when a pakeha is killed!

Did she not swear at the Treaty that the Maori and the pakeha would be the same under her law?

As long as tribe fights tribe and Maori hates Maori, the pakeha will always win.

I have done everything I can to avert war but the pakeha will not relent and are determined they should have land in the Taranaki, land the Maori do not wish to sell.

But since the pakeha have brought the musket here, more than twenty thousand Maori have been killed defending their forts.

The pakeha soldiers do not wait for us to come against them but immediately attack, looting and burning several Maori villages without warning.