page_title: List of English words of Māori origin
section_title: Other words and phrases
hierarchical_section_title: List of English words of Māori origin / Other words and phrases
caption_attribution_description: English: Preparation of a modern hāngi for tourists at Mitai, Rotorua Svenska: Tillagning av Hangi
context_page_description: The following Māori words exist as loanwords in English. Many of them concern endemic New Zealand flora and fauna that were known prior to the arrival of Europeans in New Zealand. Other terms relate to Māori customs. All of these words are commonly encountered in New Zealand English, and several are widely used across other varieties of English, and in other languages.
  The Māori alphabet includes both long and short vowels, which change the meaning of words. For most of the 20th century, these were not indicated by spelling, except sometimes as double vowels. Since the 1980s, the standard way to indicate long vowels is with a macron. Since about 2015, macrons have rapidly become standard usage for Māori loanwords in New Zealand English in media, law, government, and education. Recently some Anglicised words have been replaced with spellings that better reflect the original Māori word.
context_section_description: aroha
  love, sympathy, compassion
  arohanui
  "lots of love", commonly as a valediction
  haere mai and haere ra
  welcome and goodbye (respectively)
  haka
  traditional Māori dance, not always a war dance, often performed by New Zealand sports teams to 'intimidate' opponents; see Haka of the All Blacks
  hāngi
  (1) earth oven used to cook large quantities of food (2) the food cooked in the hāngi
  hapū
  clan or subtribe, part of an iwi
  hikoi
  march or walk, especially a symbolic walk such as a protest march
  hongi
  traditional Māori greeting featuring the pressing together of noses and sharing of breath
  hui
  meeting, conference
  iwi
  tribe
  kai
  food
  kai moana
  sea food
  kapa haka
  a cultural festival or music and dance
  ka pai
  very pleasant, good, fine
  karakia
  sung prayer or welcome
  kaupapa
  policy or principle, credo, methodology or theoretical foundation
  kāwanatanga
  transliteration of the English word "governance," sometimes mistranslated as "sovereignty." See also: tino rangatiratanga and Differences in the Māori and English versions of the Treaty of Waitangi
  kia kaha
  an expression of support, lit. be strong
  kia ora
  a greeting, lit. be healthy
  koha
  gift, present, offering, donation, contribution
  kōhanga reo
  Māori language preschool (literally 'language nest')
  kōrero
  to talk; to speak Māori; story
  koru
  stylised fern frond pattern, used in art
  Kura Kaupapa Māori
  Maori language school
  mahinga mātaitai
  traditional seafood gathering place
  mana
  regard in which someone is held; respect of their authority; reputation
  manaia
  guardian spirit, often found in Māori artwork and carving
  Māoritanga
  Māori culture, traditions, and way of life, lit. Māoriness
  marae
  meeting house, the communal or sacred place that serves religious and social purposes in Māori society
  Matariki
  midwinter festival, the Māori new year, lit. the star cluster of the Pleiades
  mihi
  lit. greet, acknowledge; sometimes used for internet board or forum message
  moko
  facial tattoo
  mokopuna
  descendants, young children. Lit. grandchildren
  Ngaire
  woman's name, origin unknown
  pā
  hill fort
  pakarū
  broken, not working; often rendered in New Zealand English as puckeroo or puckerooed
  Pākehā
  New Zealander of non-Māori descent, usually European
  Papakāinga
  land used as housing by a hapu or whanau group
  poi
  A dance art that originated in Māori culture and is now popular in object-manipulation communities
  pounamu
  greenstone, jade, nephrite
  pōwhiri
  ceremony of welcome
  puku
  abdomen, tummy
  rāhui
  a ban or prohibition
  rohe
  homeland, tribal area
  tangata whenua
  lit. "people of the land". The home tribe of a given marae or district; locals; by extension, Māori in the New Zealand context.
  taniwha
  mythical water monster
  taonga
  treasure, especially cultural treasures. Māori usage: property, goods, possessions, effects, treasure, something prized. The term whare taonga ("treasure house") is used in the Māori names of museums
  tapu
  sacred, taboo; to be avoided because of this; (a cognate of the Tongan tabu, origin of the English borrowing of taboo)
  te reo
  the Māori language (literally, 'the language')
  tiki
  stylised representation of a male human, found in Māori artwork and carving
  tino rangatiratanga
  a political term, sometimes translated as "chieftainship," but most accurately rendered as "(complete) sovereign authority", a right promised to Māori in the Treaty of Waitangi
  tukutuku
  traditional woven panels
  utu
  revenge. Māori usage: revenge, cost, price, wage, fee, payment, salary, reciprocity
  wāhi tapu
  sacred site
  wai
  water (often found in the names of New Zealand rivers)
  waiata
  singing, song
  waka
  canoe
  whakapapa
  genealogy, ancestry, heritage
  whānau
  extended family or community of related families
  whare
  house, building
caption: Putting down a hāngi
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