hakari

See also: hākari

English

Etymology

From Maori hakari or hākari.

Noun

hakari (plural hakaris)

  1. An elaborate feast in Maori culture.

Anagrams

Japanese

Romanization

hakari

  1. Rōmaji transcription of はかり

Maori

Etymology

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]

Noun

hakari

  1. roe, yolk – also alternative form of hākari

Derived terms

References

  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 551-559

Further reading

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

Rapa Nui

Noun

hakari

  1. body
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