Maori

• Māori (preferred usage in Māori text and increasingly in New Zealand English text)
• Mäori (alternative usage in Māori text when macrons are not available)
• Maaori

Borrowed from Maori māori (“aborigine, native; normal, ordinary, plain”). Doublet of Maoli.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaʊɹi/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (New Zealand, anglicised) IPA^(key): /ˈmɐʉɹiː/, /ˈmæʊɹiː/
• (New Zealand, approximating Māori pronunciation) IPA^(key): [ˈmɑːɔɾi]

• Rhymes: -aʊɹi
• Hyphenation: Mao‧ri

Maori (plural Maori or Maoris or (obsolete) Maories)

1. A member of the indigenous people of New Zealand.

• The plural Maori is now typically preferred, as the term is invariant in Māori.
• The form Māori (with a macron) is preferred by some New Zealanders as a more accurate reflection of the Maori self-designation (even when an Anglicised pronunciation is used). A double vowel is occasionally used instead of a macron; this was formerly more common, but has fallen out of use since the Māori Language Commission's decision to adopt the macron as the standard representation of Māori long vowels.

Maori

1. The language of these people.

• te reo
• Wiktionary’s coverage of Maori terms

Maori

1. Of, from, or pertaining to the Maori.

• Ngata Dictionary (new URL 2005 - it now has macrons, but it is initially unable to recognise them in a Maori-English search)
• ngā aho whakamāori-ā-tuhi (English and Maori Word Translator) formerly from the Knowledge Engineering Laboratory of University of Otago, now based in Auckland
• He Kupu Rorohiko - Computer-related terms, by Te Taka Keegan - over 350 Maori-English words and phrases, followed by English-Maori
• Maori - English Dictionary: from Webster's Dictionary - the Rosetta Edition.
• ISO 639-1 code mi, ISO 639-3 code mri (SIL)
• Ethnologue entry for Maori, mri ⁠

eTexts at the NZ Electronic Text Centre

• A Dictionary of the Maori Language, by Herbert Williams (1957).
• Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary, by Edward Tregear (1891).
• First Lessons in Maori, by Bishop William Williams (1930)

• Mario, Moira, Moria, Omari, morai, moria

• IPA^(key): /ma.ɔ.ʁi/

Maori m (plural Maori or Maoris, feminine Maorie)

1. a person of Maori descent