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hakari

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See also: hākari

English

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Etymology

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From Māori hakari or hākari.

Noun

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hakari (plural hakaris)

  1. An elaborate feast in Maori culture.

Anagrams

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Japanese

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Romanization

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hakari

  1. Rōmaji transcription of はかり

Māori

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Etymology

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From Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *sakali (“ripe coconut” – compare with Rarotongan ‘akari, Tahitian haʻari);[1][2] semantic shift from the lack of coconuts found naturally in New Zealand.[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈhakari/ [ˈhɐkɐɾi]

Noun

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hakari

  1. roe, yolk – also alternative form of hākari

Derived terms

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References

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Bruce Biggs (1994), “New Words for a New World”, in A. K. Pawley, M. D. Ross, editors, Austronesian Terminologies: Continuity and Change (Pacific Linguistics Series C; 127), Australian National University, →DOI, page 29
  2. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “sakali”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551–9

Further reading

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  • Williams, Herbert William (1917), “hakari”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 37
  • John C. Moorfield (2011), “hakari”, in Te Aka: Māori–English, English–Māori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, →ISBN

Rapa Nui

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Noun

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hakari

  1. body
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