Maori

See also: maori, māori, and Māori

English

Alternative forms

• Māori (preferred usage in Māori text and increasingly in New Zealand English text)
• Mäori (alternative usage in Māori text when macrons are not available)
• Maaori

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaʊɹi/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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

• Rhymes: -aʊɹi

Noun

Maori (plural Maori or 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 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 as the standard representation of Māori long vowels.

Derived terms

• Maoribank
• Maorify
• Maori hen
• Maoriland
• Maoritanga

 

Translations

indigenous people of New Zealand

• Afrikaans: Maori (af)
• 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)
• Maori: Māori
• Marathi: माओरी (māorī)
• Polish: Maorysi pl
• Portuguese: maori (pt) m
• Russian: ма́ори (ru) m or f (máori)
• Sotho: Bamaori
• Spanish: maorí (es) m or f
• Uyghur: ماۋرىلار (mawrilar)

member of the Maori people of New Zealand

• Afrikaans: Maori (af)
• 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
• Hawaiian: Māoli
• 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)
• Sotho: Momaori
• Spanish: maorí (es) m or f
• Uyghur: ماۋرى (mawri)

language of the Māori

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

  Mandarin: 毛利語 / 毛利语 (zh) (Máolì-yǔ)

• Czech: maorština f
• Dutch: Maori (nl) n
• Farefare: maɔrɛ
• Finnish: maori (fi), maorin kieli
• French: maori (fr) m
• German: Maori (de) n, Maorisch 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)
• Sotho: Semaori
• 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

Adjective

Maori

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

Derived terms

• Maori mint
• Maori onion
• Maori rat
• Maori title
• Maoridom
• Maoriness
• Maori wrasse

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)

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