mātauranga
Maori
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From mātau (“to know”) + -ranga.
Noun
[edit]mātauranga
- knowledge, wisdom
- mātauranga Māori ― Maori knowledge
- (in compounds) study of
- education
- sage, scholar
Derived terms
[edit]- mātauranga hapori (“sociology”)
- mātauranga huaota (“botany”)
- mātauranga kararehe (“zoology”)
- mātauranga koiora (“biology”)
- mātauranga matū (“chemistry”)
- mātauranga ōhanga (“economics”)
- mātauranga pūtaiao (“science”)
- mātauranga toi (“art education”)
- mātauranga tōrangapū (“political science”)
- mātauranga wetereo (“linguistics”)
- mātauranga whakahua (“phonetics”)
- tohu mātauranga (“university degree”)
Further reading
[edit]- “mātauranga” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.