tahua

See also: Tahua

English

Etymology

From Maori tahua.

Noun

tahua

1. A pile of food presented as a gift.

Anagrams

• Thaua

Maori

Etymology 1

From Proto-Eastern Polynesian *tafuqa (“platform; foundation, base”) (compare with Tahitian tahua (“floor, deck, field”) and Hawaiian kahua (“field”)).

Noun

tahua

1. field, enclosure, courtyard

   tahua riringa: battlefield

   Synonym: marae (of a house)

2. square, plaza
3. expanse

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

tahua

1. heap
2. menu
3. fund, budget

Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

tahua

1. stencil

Further reading

• Williams, Herbert William (1917) “tahua”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 421
• “tahua” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

Tahitian

Etymology

From Proto-Eastern Polynesian *tafuqa (“platform; foundation, base”) (compare with Maori tahua and Hawaiian kahua).

Noun

tahua

1. floor, base, field

   tahua manureva: airfield

   tahua fare: floor of a house

   tahua ʻeraʻa pōpō : football (or soccer) pitch

   Synonym: marae

Further reading

• Yves Lemaître, Lexique du tahitien contemporain (Current Tahitian lexicon), 1995.
• “tahua” in Dictionnaire en ligne Tahitien/Français (Online Tahitian–French Dictionary), by the Tahitian Academy.