kawau

From Maori kawau.

kawau

1. (New Zealand) The great cormorant.

• kōau

kawau

1. cormorant, shag

• kawau pāteketeke
• kawau pū
• kawau tikitiki
• kawau tuawhenua
• kawau tūī
• kawaupaka

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

• IPA^(key): [kawaw]

kawau

1. the star-fingered toad, Pipa pipa

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “kawau”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon
• de Civrieux, Marc (1980) “kawao”, in  David M. Guss, transl., Watunna: An Orinoco Creation Cycle, San Francisco: North Point Press, →ISBN
• Guss, David M. (1989) To Weave and Sing: Art, Symbol, and Narrative in the South American Rain Forest, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, →ISBN, pages 111, 198, 239: “kawau”