porotaka

Maori

Etymology 1

poro (“any round or curving object, ball”) +‎ taka (“to revolve, to encircle”).

Noun

porotaka

  1. globe; spherical model of Earth
    • 1877 July 3, “Te Ao Me Te Ra”, in Te Waka Maori‎[1], page 156:
      Na, kua kite tatou he mea porotaka te ao nei, tona ahua; he mea takahurihuri hoki, pera me te potaka, a me he mea i kore taua takahurihuritanga kua kore hoki te whitiwhiti haere o te awatea me te po...
      So, we have seen that the globe [is what the earth looks like]. The earth spins [on its own] like a top; without this rotation, day and night cannot replace one another...
  2. sphere
    porotaka moana: globe sponge, Tethya aurantium

Adjective

porotaka

  1. spherical

Etymology 2

poro (“block, slab”) +‎ taka (“to revolve, to encircle”).

Noun

porotaka

  1. spinning top

Derived terms

Further reading

  • Williams, Herbert William (1917) “porotaka”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 343
  • “porotaka” 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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