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hangi

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See also: Hàn-gí

English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Maori hāngī.

Noun

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hangi (countable and uncountable, plural hangis or hangi)

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  1. (New Zealand) A traditional Māori pit oven, in which (suitably wrapped) raw food is lain on a base of heated stones. [from 19th c.]
    • 2018, Bruce Pascoe, Dark Emu, Scribe, published 2020, page 134:
      The ovens were used to cook food in identical fashion to the Maori hangi and the Papuan stone ovens.
  2. (New Zealand, uncountable) Food cooked in this way. [from 20th c.]
    • 2015, Anne Ashby, Worlds Collide:
      He glanced at the formal setting in front of him, wishing he could be at a marae eating hangi right now.

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Turkish

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Etymology

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From Ottoman Turkish هانكی (hangi), خانغی (hangı, which), from earlier قنغی (kangı), from Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (qanqï, which), from Proto-Turkic *kan-, *kań-, a derivation from the interrogative stem *ka-. Ultimately cognate to Turkish hani (where), Old Uyghur [script needed] (kanu, what, which), Karakhanid [script needed] (kayū, what, which), Bashkir ҡайһы (qayhı, which), Kyrgyz кай (kay, what, which), but its relation to the original word is obscure.[1]

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Pronoun

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hangi

  1. (interrogative) which
    Hangi ayda doğdun?Which month were you born in?

Usage notes

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  • Note: Declension of the singular form requires hangi-si, which literally translates to “which one, which of”.

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References

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  1. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “ka:ñu:”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 632