tahua

See also: Tahua

English

Etymology

From Maori tahua.

Noun

tahua

  1. A pile of food presented as a gift.

Anagrams

Maori

Etymology 1

From Proto-Eastern Polynesian *tafuqa (“platform; foundation, base”) (compare with Tahitian tahua (“floor, deck, field”) and Hawaiian kahua (“field”)).[1]

Noun

tahua

  1. field, enclosure, courtyard
    tahua riringa: battlefield
    Synonym: marae (of a house)
  2. square, plaza
  3. expanse

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

tahua

  1. heap
  2. menu
  3. fund, budget

Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

tahua

  1. stencil

References

  1. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “tafuqa”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551-559

Further reading

  • Williams, Herbert William (1917) “tahua”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 421
  • “tahua” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

Tahitian

Etymology

From Proto-Eastern Polynesian *tafuqa (“platform; foundation, base”) (compare with Maori tahua and Hawaiian kahua).[1]

Noun

tahua

  1. floor, base, field
    tahua manureva: airfield
    tahua fare: floor of a house
    tahua ʻeraʻa pōpō : football (or soccer) pitch
    Synonym: marae

References

  1. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “tafuqa”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551-559

Further reading

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