faʻaauraʻa

Tahitian

Noun

faʻaauraʻa

1. convention, contract, pact
2. signification, raison d'être

   E tē māere noa ra Pētero i roto iāna iho i te faʻaauraʻa i taua ʻōrama i itea iāna ra. ― And Peter wondered in himself what the signification of this vision may be.

References

• "faʻaauraʻa" in Académie tahitienne, Fare Vāna'a, 1972–present
• Lemaître, Yves (1995 July) Ird Orstom, editor, Lexique du tahitien contemporain‎^[1], page 43