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Maori

See also: maori, māori, and Māori

English

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Alternative forms

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  • Māori (preferred usage in Māori text)
  • Mäori, Maaori (alternative usage in Māori text when macrons are not available)

Etymology

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Borrowed from Maori māori (“aborigine, native; normal, ordinary, plain”). Doublet of Maoli.

Pronunciation

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Particularly: "New Zealand"

Noun

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Maori (plural Maori or Maoris or (obsolete) Maories)

  1. A member of the indigenous people of New Zealand.

Usage notes

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  • The plural Maori is now typically preferred, as the term is invariant in Māori.
  • The form Māori (with a macron) is preferred by some New Zealanders as a more accurate reflection of the Maori self-designation (even when an Anglicised pronunciation is used). A double vowel is occasionally used instead of a macron; this was formerly more common, but has fallen out of use since the Māori Language Commission's decision to adopt the macron (tohutō) as the standard representation of Māori long vowels.

Derived terms

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Translations

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Proper noun

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Maori

  1. The language of these people.

See also

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Adjective

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Maori

  1. Of, from, or pertaining to the Maori.

Derived terms

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Derived terms

Translations

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Further reading

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eTexts at the NZ Electronic Text Centre

Anagrams

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French

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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Maori m (plural Maori or Maoris, feminine Maorie)

  1. a person of Maori descent
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