amokura

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Maori amokura.

Noun

amokura (plural amokuras)

  1. Synonym of red-tailed tropicbird.
    • 1981, Richard Anthony Benton, The Flight of the Amokura: Oceanic Languages and Formal Education in the South Pacific:
      The amokura (Phaethon rubicauda), the red-tailed tropic bird, known in New Zealand as tawake or amokura, in Hawaii as koa'e'ula, tava'e'ula in Samoa, tavakemoerangi in Rarotonga, […]

Anagrams

Maori

Etymology

From amo (“to carry on the shoulder”) +‎ kura (“read”).

Noun

amokura

  1. red-tailed tropicbird

Further reading

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