Maori

See also: maori, māori, and Māori

English

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaʊɹi/

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• (New Zealand, anglicised) IPA^(key): /ˈmɐʉɹiː/, /ˈmæʊɹiː/
• (New Zealand, approximating Māori pronunciation) IPA^(key): [ˈmɑːɔɾi]

• Rhymes: -aʊɹi

Adjective

Maori

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

Derived terms

Derived terms

• Maori onion
• Maori rat
• Maori title
• Maoridom
• Maoriness

Translations

of, from, or pertaining to the Māori

• Bulgarian: маорски (maorski)
• Catalan: maori (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 毛利的 (zh) (Máolì de)

• Dutch: Maori (nl)
• Farefare: maori
• Finnish: maori- (fi)
• French: maori (fr) m, maorie (fr) f
• Galician: maorí (gl) m or f
• Irish: Maorach
• Macedonian: ма́орски (máorski)
• Manx: Maorach
• Maori: Māori
• Marathi: माओरी (māorī)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: maorisk

  Nynorsk: maorisk

• Persian: مائوری‎ (fa) (mâ'ori)
• Polish: maoryski (pl)
• Portuguese: maori (pt)
• Russian: маори́йский (ru) (maoríjskij)
• Spanish: maorí (es)
• Swedish: maorisk (sv)
• Uyghur: ماۋرى‎ (mawri)

Noun

Maori (plural Maori or (now rare in New Zealand; see usage notes) Maoris or (obsolete) Maories)

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

Usage notes

• The plural Maori is now typically preferred, as the term is invariant in Māori; the regular plural is now often considered outmoded and often even derogatory in New Zealand English.
• 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

• Maoribank
• Maorify
• Maoriland

Translations

indigenous people of New Zealand

• Bulgarian: маори pl (maori)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 毛利人 (zh) (Máolì-rén)

• Czech: Maoři
• Dutch: Maori (nl) pl
• Estonian: maur (et)
• Farefare: maoriga sg, maorisi pl
• Finnish: maorit pl
• Irish: Maoraigh m pl
• Japanese: マオリ人 (Maori-jin)
• Macedonian: Ма́ори pl (Máori)
• Marathi: माओरी (māorī)
• Polish: Maorysi pl
• Portuguese: maori (pt) m
• Russian: ма́ори (ru) m or f (máori)
• Spanish: maorí (es) m or f
• Uyghur: ماۋرىلار‎ (mawrilar)

member of the Maori people of New Zealand

• Catalan: maori (ca) m or f
• Dutch: Maori (nl) m or f
• Farefare: maoriga sg, maorisi pl
• Finnish: maori (fi)
• French: Maori (fr) m, Maorie f
• Irish: Maorach m
• Macedonian: Ма́ор m (Máor), Ма́орка f (Máorka)
• Manx: Maorach m
• Marathi: माओरी (māorī)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: maori (no) m

  Nynorsk: maori m

• Polish: Maorys m, Maoryska f
• Portuguese: maori (pt) m
• Russian: ма́ори (ru) m or f (máori)
• Spanish: maorí (es) m or f
• Uyghur: ماۋرى‎ (mawri)

language of the Māori

• Arabic: مَاوْرِيّ‎ m (māwriyy)
• Armenian: մաորի (hy) (maori)
• Catalan: maori (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 毛利語／毛利语 (Máolì-yǔ)

• Czech: maorština f
• Dutch: Maori (nl) n
• Farefare: maɔrɛ
• Finnish: maori (fi), maorin kieli
• French: maori (fr) m
• German: Maori (de) n
• Irish: Maorais f
• Japanese: マオリ語 (ja) (Maori-go)
• Korean: 마오리어 (Maori-eo)
• Macedonian: маорски m (maorski)
• Maori: te reo Māori, Māori
• Marathi: माओरी f (māorī)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: maori (no)

  Nynorsk: maori

• Polish: maoryski (pl) m
• Portuguese: maori (pt) m
• Russian: ма́ори (ru) m (máori)
• Spanish: maorí (es) m
• Turkish: Maori dili
• Uyghur: ماۋرى تىلى‎ (mawri tili), ماۋرىچە‎ (mawriche)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Maori: ^{(please verify)} Māori
• Persian: ^{(please verify)} مائوری‎ (fa) (mâ'ori)
• Swedish: ^{(please verify)} maori (sv) (1, 2)

Proper noun

Maori

1. The language of these people.

See also

• te reo
• 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 Otago, 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 (SIL)
• Ethnologue entry for Maori, mri ⁠

eTexts at the NZ Electronic Text Centre

• A Dictionary of the Maori Language, by Herbert Williams (1957).
• Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary, by Edward Tregear (1891).
• First Lessons in Maori, by Bishop William Williams (1930)

Anagrams

• Mario, Moira, Moria, Omari, morai, moria

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.ɔ.ʁi/

Noun

Maori m (plural Maori or Maoris, feminine Maorie)

1. a person of Maori descent