# Aotearoa
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Maori Aotearoa (“long white cloud; North Island; New Zealand”), see there for more.

### Pronunciation

* (New Zealand) IPA: /aʊ.tɪəˈrɐʉ.a/, (prescribed) IPA: /aʊ.teəˈroː.a/
** Audio (New Zealand):(file)
* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˌɑː.əʊ.teəˈrəʊ.ə/
* (General American) IPA: /ˌaʊ.ti.əˈɹoʊ.ə/, /ˌɑ.oʊ.ti.əˈroʊ.ə/
* (General Australian) IPA: /aʊˌtæɪ.əˈrɐʉ.ə/

### Proper noun

Aotearoa
* (chiefly New Zealand, obsolete) The North Island of New Zealand.
    Synonym: North Island
** 1855, Sir George Grey, Polynesian mythology and ancient traditional history of the New Zealand race: as furnished by their priests and chiefs‎:he found in the sea this island Aotearoa (the northern island of New Zealand), and he thought he would land there.
* (chiefly New Zealand) New Zealand, a country in Oceania; especially seen in a Polynesian or pre-colonial context.
    Synonyms: Aotearoa New Zealand, New Zealand
** 1981, Tim Finn, Split Enz (lyrics and music), “Six Months in a Leaky Boat”:Aotearoa / rugged individual / glistens like a pearl at the bottom of the world [...].
** 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, page 877:The Maori in Aotearoa (the pair of major islands which Europeans have known as New Zealand) were part of the same oceanic culture.
** 2019, Kamaka Pili, “Ep. 37: Manulani Aluli Meyer - Hawaiian Epistemology” (4:35 from the start), in Aloha Authentic‎, via YouTube:You were a professor at the University of Hawai'i at Hilo and I know you went to Aotearoa to have some time there and gain some experiences.
** 2020, Sujit Sivasundaram, Waves Across the South, William Collins, published 2021, page 10:There then arose a triangle of settlement across the vast Pacific, which had as its points Hawai‘i, Rapa Nui and Aotearoa.
** 2021 October 16, Lidia Kelly, “New Zealand vaccinates 2.5% of its people in a day in drive to live with COVID-19”, in William Mallard, editor, Reuters‎, archived from the original on 16 October 2021, Asia Pacific:New Zealand vaccinated at least 2.5% of its people on Saturday as the government tries to accelerate inoculations and live with COVID-19, preliminary health ministry data showed. Through an array of strategies, gimmicks and Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's encouragement through the day, 124,669 shots were administered by late in the day in a country of 4.9 million. "We set a target for ourselves, Aotearoa, you've done it, but let's keep going," Ardern said, using a Maori name for New Zealand at a vaccination site, according to the Newshub news service. "Let's go for 150 [thousand]. Let's go big or go home."
** For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Aotearoa.

#### Derived terms

* Aotearoa New Zealand
* Aotearoan

### See also

* Kiwi

### Further reading

* H. W. Orsman, editor (1997), The Dictionary of New Zealand English: A Dictionary of New Zealandisms on Historical Principles, Auckland: Oxford University Press
* T. Deverson, G. Kennedy, editors (2005), The New Zealand Oxford Dictionary, Victoria: Oxford University Press
* M. King (2004) The Penguin History of New Zealand, Auckland: Penguin Books

## Hawaiian
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Maori Aotearoa in the 20th century.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ao̯.ke.aˈlo.a/, [əo̯.ke.jəˈlo.wə]

### Proper noun

Aotearoa
* New Zealand (a country and archipelago in Oceania, to the east of Australia)
    Synonyms: Aokealoa, Nukilani

### See also

* Aokealoa

## Maori
### Alternative forms

* Ao-tea-roa

### Etymology

Possibly from ao (“cloud, daytime, world”) +‎ tea (“white”) +‎ roa (“long, tall”); often translated as “the land of the long white cloud” (the assumption presumably being that the phrase referred to a mountainous land seen on the horizon from a canoe, after an ocean voyage). The term may have originally referred to the North Island only.
The original name used by the indigenous Polynesian population was Te Ika Nui A Maui or Te Ika-a-Māui (“The great fish of Maui”); from te (“the”) +‎ ika (“fish”) +‎ nui (“big, great, large”) +‎ a (“of”) +‎ Māui (a Polynesian demigod).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /aɔˈtearɔa/
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### Proper noun

Aotearoa
* (obsolete) North Island (of New Zealand)
* New Zealand (a country and archipelago in Oceania, to the east of Australia)
* The Māori name for the national anthem of New Zealand, God Defend New Zealand

#### Derived terms

* Aotearoa Tuatahi
* Ara Poutama Aotearoa
* Ararau Aotearoa
* Kaunihera Māori o Aotearoa
* Mana Arotake Aotearoa
* Mana Rapuara Aotearoa
* Paerewa Aotearoa
* Pāremata Aotearoa
* Penihana Aotearoa
* Pirihimana o Aotearoa
* Poirewa Aotearoa
* Rōpū Aotearoa Tuatahi
* Rōpū Ture o Aotearoa
* Tatauranga Aotearoa
* Toi Aotearoa
* Toi Māori Aotearoa
* Uruwhenua o Aotearoa
* Waka Rererangi Aotearoa
* Wānanga o Aotearoa

#### Descendants

* → Hawaiian: Aotearoa
* → Korean: 아오테아로아 (aotearoa)
* → Paiwan: Autearua
* → Tahitian: Aotearoa

### Further reading

* “Aotearoa” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /a.o.te.aˈɾo.ɐ/
* (Brazil) IPA: /a.o.te.aˈɾo.ɐ/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /a.o.te.aˈɾo.a/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ɐ.u.tjɐˈɾo.ɐ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ɐ.u.tjɐˈɾo.ɐ/
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /ɐ.u.tjɐˈɾo(w).ɐ/

### Proper noun

Aotearoa
* Aotearoa (New Zealand, a country in Oceania; especially seen in a Polynesian or pre-colonial context)
    Synonym: Nova Zelândia