parauri

Maori

Etymology

para (“yellow, dirt, silt”) +‎ uri (“dark, deep [of colour]”) thus ‘dark yellow’[1] – compare with paraumu “topsoil” (lit. ‘soil of the umu’) and parā “to turn yellow of dirt, to ripe”. Similar connections of yellow and brown can be found within other languages of the same Austronesian family: Malay for example has kuning tanah (lit. “dirt yellow”) referring to hex colour #eeb261[2] which can be perceived as brownish to Westerners.

Adjective

parauri

  1. dark (of skin colour)

Noun

parauri

  1. brown[1]

See also

Colors in Maori · ngā tae (layout · text)
     tea, mā      kiwikiwi      pango
             mea, kura, whero              karaka; parauri              kōwhai, renga
                          kāriki, kākāriki              kārikiuri
                          kikorangi              kahurangi
             tūāuri              waiporoporo              māwhero

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Dodgson, Neil, Chen, Victoria, Zahido, Meimuna (November 2024) “The colonisation of the colour pink: variation and change in Māori’s colour lexicon”, in Linguistics, →DOI, pages 23-4, 30
  2. ^ Zati Hazira Ismail, Abdul Mutaa'li Othman (December 2020) “The Traditional Malay Colour Palette for Contemporary Design References”, in Jurnal Pengajian Melayu, Universiti Malaya, →DOI, page 42

Further reading

  • Williams, Herbert William (1917) “parauri”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 308
  • “parauri” 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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