poaka
See also: Poaka
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Māori poaka (“pig”).
Noun
[edit]poaka (plural poakas)
- (New Zealand, among the Maori people) A pig.
- 1904, Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives..., New Zealand. Parliament. House of Representatives, page 62:
- When I write that scores of houses have been burnt, whole villages renovated, kaingas fenced in, poakas and dogs fenced out […]
Māori
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Polynesian *puaka.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]poaka
Derived terms
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